Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate flights would be based on a new class of service. Passengers would sit five across and be allowed 44 lbs. of baggage, as on present tourist flights, but would have four inches less leg room between seats. The airlines would sell sandwiches, serve no hot meals or liquor. They would thus be able to cut down the galley, make do with two stewardesses, and carry as many as 104 passengers, v. 71 on present tourist flights. On a DC-7B, the flight would take 13 hours, including stopovers at Gander and Shannon, take two hours more than present nonstop...
...cases like that of the fourteen year-old, the ABC must seek to secure greater social responsibility, both from liquor dealers and from the general public. Under existing practices, many people, antagonized by the ABC's behavior, sympathetically abet what they consider "oppressed" youth. The surest way of insuring public confidence is a more practical approach toward such minor matters as the eleven o'clock beer. Another measure which would secure greater public confidence would be to lower the age limit to eighteen, at least on relatively harmless wines and beers, if not on hard liquors...
Vellucci claimed he had known last week that the City Council had no right to confiscate land, secede from Harvard, or revoke liquor licenses at the University and M.I.T., his original proposals. He said he merely wanted to bring the parking problem to the attention of city and University authorities and to demonstrate that "We are the boss, not Harvard...
...Called for a return to prohibition and applied a rhetorical axe to the liquor trade: there is "a growing practice of permitting the sale of alcoholic beverages through drug and grocery stores, in a deliberate attempt to win the housewife as a customer"; liquor "impairs tenderness of conscience...
...open meeting at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, the Cambridge City Council will consider Alfred Vellucci's recent proposals for more parking space, an independent "City of Harvard," and voiding of University liquor licenses...