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...past five years, costs have soared for everything from barrels to bottle tops, and the companies have been afraid to raise whisky prices because a boost might drive customers to drink more beer and wine. Liquor prices rose only 3.6% last year. By reducing the proof, says Gerald Mooney, trade, press-and executive-relations manager of Hiram Walker, "we get what amounts to a price increase without passing that along to the consumer." Lowering the proof reduces both manufacturing costs and federal taxes. The tax is $10.50 on each 100-proof gallon, $9,03 on 86 proof...
Powerful Pinch. To attach the arm, Dr. Vert Mooney and his colleagues inserted three "buttons" or fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand...
...Harry J. Mooney...
...Biscuit Owner Jim Mooney, a machinist from nearby Torrance, transports him and the 30 other terrapins he races in water-filled ice chests in the back of his Dodge "turtle van." Says Mooney: "It shows a lot of class if you can keep a turtle healthy and running for five or six years." Main threat to the turtles' health: the customers at Brennan's. Fueled up on "jelly beans," a deadly concoction of anisette and blackberry brandy, they pose a mortal threat to the hardtop thoroughbreds plodding underfoot...
Giancana understood such methods; he had employed them himself in the days when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones...