Word: mint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the mistake of thinking those TV cameras are branches of the United States Mint. Dollar bills don't come out of them like bread from a bakery oven." This advice by Disk Jockey Dick Clark appears in a new book, Your Happiest Years (Rosho Corp.; $2.95), aiming sound moral advice at teenagers. Yet in a mere three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column...
MENTHOL CIGARETTES, which have come from 5% to 10% of the market in two years, will double their share to 20% in next two years, predicts Lewis J. Gruber, chairman of P. Lonllard Co. (Kent, Old Gold, Newport). Gruber says smokers like mint and menthol sensations, but will not embrace new tastes-pineapple, cinnamon, apple blossom...
...abominations that would have doomed a lesser drink. Johnny Solon, an unlamented mixologist at the old Waldorf bar, diluted the basic gin and vermouth with orange juice and called it a Bronx-a cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter, "like crabgrass...
...will take the French mint five or six years to replace the country's coinage completely, and for a time the old banknotes will simply be issued overprinted in red with their new values, until new coins (including a silver 5-franc piece the size and approximate value of a silver dollar) can be turned out. But once again a thrifty Frenchman...
...emergency (e.g., the failure of the refrigeration system) the entire stock of liquid hydrogen can be dumped through a pipe down a canyon and into a spherical tank. If all precautions fail, a hydrogen explosion may not wreck the whole apparatus. The top of the building is made of mint green plastic, is designed to blow off easily, allowing the blast to spend its force in empty...