Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOONSHINERS are generally thought of as backwoods hillbillies who salt their product with lye, manure and dead skunks, but Georgia's biggest moonshiner is a respectable (and licensed) businessman. See BUSINESS, Shine On, Georgia Moon...
...association of legitimate distillers, complained last week. Moonshiners themselves are lamenting their own losses to a new and formidable competitor, who does not have to worry about revenooers busting up his stills. The competitor: Georgia's Viking Distillery, which has brought out a 90-proof corn whisky, Georgia Moon, that is just as throat-burning, stomach-churning and aggressively youthful (none older than 30 days) as its backwoods counterpart. The difference is that it bears the federal excise stamp...
Viking, which has raised its sales from $700,000 in 1957 to $8,000,000 last year by aggressive selling, at first tried to cut into the lucrative moonshine market by selling Georgia Moon in the usual narrow-necked bottles (Brown-Forman also puts out a narrow-necked corn). But it had little success in bucking the ingrained habits of shine drinkers, who like to drink out of Mason jars, the South's traditional moonshine container. After dickering with the Treasury, Viking got permission last month to put its corn likker into Mason-jar fifths (retail price...
...Arcularis, which chillingly deals with the no man's land between life and death - are bravely and successfully ended in the O. Henry manner. These are the author's best, and they are a pleasure to read; few literary telescopes show the dark side of the moon as vividly...
...becomes Master of Dunster House and is thus eliminated from consideration for football coach and Dean of the Faculty.... The Soviet Union puts a man in orbit around the earth. Khrushchev declines comment on reports that the space traveler is Mao Tse-tung. The United States, aiming for the moon, lands a man in the Congo.... Kennedy, in a televised press conference, announces that "this country is moving again." ....Eisenhower, in retirement publishes a book on Cuba called "Listen, C. Wright Mills!" Castro, whose vocabulary is becoming limited, denounces the work as a "provocation" ... Harvard still needs a Dean...