Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, when grain spirits were short, Rosenstiel confidently started using potato spirits in Three Feathers, one of his most popular blends. Result: Three Feathers was a top-selling U.S. whisky all through the wartime shortage-largely because it was the most available. Rosenstiel put on his greatest show of confidence by expanding. During and after the war, he bought the Blatz Brewing Co., put Schenley into wines and vermouth (Cresta Blanca, Roma and La Bohème), rum (Carioca), cordials (DuBouchett), brandies (Coronet, J. Bavet and Jean Robert), gins (Silver Wedding, Schenley, Gibson, etc.), and even...
...Pork & Potatoes. "A man's set up in life," says an old Newfie tag, "when he haves a pig an' a punt an' a potato patch." Through most of their history, Newfoundlanders have not had much more than these basic needs. They went out to the grounds and fished for cod. Some of the cod they ate themselves, with "crunchin's" of pork and potatoes. The rest they sold for cash to buy sugar, tea, wool for their homespun clothes, and an occasional keg of "screech" (Newfie...
...William Russell Grace a refugee from the Irish potato famine and a partner in a small ship chandler's store seven miles from Lima, Peru, changed trades. He decided that he could make more money selling guano fertilizer (bird droppings) than from ship supplies He was right. By the time he died in 1904. his W. R. Grace & Co. was a multimillion-dollar empire whose ship lines, sales agencies, railroads and import-export business touched almost every town and hamlet along South America's west coast...
...America . . . We are the president of the Reliable Springs and Wire Forms Company, and we have been King of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. We are the man in charge of complaints at Macy's . . . One of our .gogetters has made a big thing of selling power-driven potato-peeling machines . . . We have won Arthur Godfrey's 'Talent Scouts' Contest, sung Pimenn in Boris Godunov, played Ravenal in Show Boat...
Saints of Skulduggery. Sam soon moved into a wider field-school. Pockets bulging with Sawyerian equipment ("Fishhooks, twine, white alleys and other marvels, Barlow knives, jew's-harps, hunks of maple sugar, birds' eggs, potato guns, and perhaps a picture of Adam and Eve without a rag"), Sam was soon leader of the school gang and the bane of his teacher's existence...