Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the U.S. last week, state governments were cautiously squeezing a little extra milk out of taxpayers. Since Jan. 1, 22 states had levied one or more new taxes, or had hiked up old ones. Faced with wage raises for public employees and increased operating costs, 15 states had passed cigaret tax laws; nine had raised taxes on liquor; four had started sales taxes. Taxpayers, long used to this kind of pasture milking, made no attempt to kick over the bucket. But there was a great deal of angry tail-switching...
...years were good to him. He cornered the $500,000-a-day California bookie business, set up a "milk run" smuggling Mexican heroin into California. In 1946 he opened the swanky $6,000,000 Flamingo Club in Las Vegas. He made the acquaintance of sultry, dark-haired Virginia Hill, 30, who was famed for parties that dazzled even Hollywood. The story was that thrice-married Virginia had a Brooklyn patron, a gang overlord who paid her handsomely to stay out of New York. Bugsy moved his shoes and suits over to Virginia's house...
...early leaders of the pack, little Dick Metz and big Chick Harbert, went haywire-they could not keep up their sub-par pace. Golfers who still had a chance to win drifted into the clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...
...cast has consumed onstage some 1,170 Ibs. of coffee, 800 gallons of milk, 3,200 loaves of bread, 19,000 oranges and 2,200 boxes of breakfast cereal...
...Alcohol. 4. Milk...