Word: malts
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Some bitter opponents of the Massachusetts bill, who had charged that the measure would eliminate jobs and increase the price of beverages, have moved quickly to make the best of a bad situation. Bruce Wright, president of the Massachusetts Wholesalers of Malt Beverages Inc., still claims that the new law will be costly to retailers and difficult to implement; nonetheless, he has already called on the association's members to comply. But last week the Massachusetts Beverage Industry and Labor Committee announced a drive to collect the 29,434 signatures necessary to get a referendum repealing the bill...
...boys back in the barracks think this crusty old sergeant got his paunch by putting away six-packs. The truth of the matter is, I was secretly sipping another kind of malt at Salt Lake City's Snelgrove Ice Cream store...
Taking careful note of all the duplication and trend setting, a Major Ralph Rochester of Malt Field, Devon, dispatched a letter to the Times of London. "Sir," he wrote, "I have observed of late numerous girls who are taking pains to look like Lady Diana; but of the boys I have observed, none is making the least effort to look like the Prince of Wales. How should this be?" One reason may be that the Prince steers clear of trends. His suits are made by Johns & Pegg, Ltd., exclusively military tailors until World War II, which made the naval ceremonial...
...Diana, both from Texas and both from Anne Arm strong, the former American ambassador! A herb garden for Highgrove from the Cranleigh Group of Women's Institutes in Surrey! A lace cushion from the Royal School of Needlework! Two cases of specially blended 'C and D' malt whisky from Macallans Distillery! And - wait until you ladies see this - from Geba, in Germany, kitchen furnishings for every culinary pursuit you can imagine, valued at a grand total of $20,000! And, if you think that's something, just take a look at what...
...most promising new keyboard is the Maltron, invented by the British team of Lillian Malt, a keyboard training consultant, and Electronics Engineer Stephen Hobday. The Maltron makes letters easier to hit by tilting the keyboard toward normal hand and body positions. More important, it saves time and motion by dividing keys into more efficient groups: 91% of the most often used letters are on the Maltron "home row," where fingertips are normally placed in touch typing, vs. 51% for the QWERTY. Under the Maltron system, hands rarely have to "hurdle" (i.e., jump upward or sideways so fingers can strike keys...