Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GOODS & SERVICES New Ideas Unbaited Breath. For henpecked husbands-and others who don't dare smell of liquor-Merchants Distilling Corp. of Terre Haute, Ind. put on the market vodka with a dash of chlorophyll to kill any breath odor. The first 1,000 cases of green "Vodkafyll" sold out in Los Angeles in three weeks. While it works well for virtually tasteless vodka, chlorophyll is less practical in gin, Scotch...
...Live a Little. Wilson, as Viertel introduces him, is an extreme type of the Hemingway generation. Liquor all day, women all night, and then off to Kenya to get straight with God by horn-wrestling a buffalo. In Wilson's case, it's off to the Congo to shoot a few elephants before making a movie in the middle of the jungle...
Brown kept up the crusades, but changed their direction and tone. The papers launched campaigns for the improvement of Rhode Island law on everything from reorganizing municipal fiscal procedure to stopping the flow of liquor into state prisons. Staffers roamed the U.S. to see how other cities were run, returned with recommendations that have made many Rhode Island city and state government bureaus models of good organization...
...Hard Way. In Los Angeles, after police refused to admit him to the city jail, Raymond Tanori smashed a liquor-store window, was duly arrested, given 30 days behind bars...
Embarrassing Subject. In Vicksburg, Miss., Ellis Nasif, owner of the Nasif Beverage Co., reported to police that $12,000 worth of liquor had been stolen from his warehouse in dry Mississippi...