Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiger Blood. Making moonshine is easy, and the profits are large. Racketeers copy the big distillers' methods. The pale, unaged liquid that results is "white light-nin'," "white mule," "Splo," or "tiger blood." Many a Southern countryman would rather drink it than store whisky. One lead-bellied Georgia farmer told a Treasury agent: "I bought legal once. Couldn't stand the stuff. Threw it to the hogs 'n they all died...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp., which has grubstaked Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to some $50 million, last week decided to ride along on the mule as well. To K-F's board of directors, the RFC appointed their own representative,* 26-year-old Detroit Lawyer Alan E. Schwartz. A Harvard Law School graduate (1950) who had caught RFChairman Harry McDonald's eye when pleading cases before government bureaus, Schwartz will attend all of K-F's board meetings, keep tabs on the company's finances (K-F's losses in the past seven years: $53 million). Explained...
...nursing a "moderate concussion" and a wrenched right shoulder after taking a header from his horse on a San Simeon bridle path. German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was forced to cancel the rest of his Salzburg Music Festival appearances after a bout of pneumonia. Hollywood's talking mule Francis was nursing bruised legs after her trailer jackknifed in traffic in Bridgeport, Conn...
...after day Gino and his companions stayed down in the damp, hot (104°) shaft, 1,600 feet below the green vineyards of Cabernardi. They bedded down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note...
...Digs Whimsy? Such pictures as the Ma & Pa Kettle series (starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) and the Francis (the talking mule) films are typical of Goldstein's successes. In all his major efforts, the gags are fast and broad, the chases wild and merry. As Goldstein himself puts it: "Nobody likes my pictures but the public." For the more mature trade, Goldstein has turned out such pictures as The Egg and I and numerous westerns. But he avoids sophisticated comedy. Once, turning down a script, he explained to Writer Don McGuire: "Don, you dig whimsy. I dig whimsy...