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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dixie Treat. In Washington, B.C., the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras flavoring, a dash of sugar, half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...tubular magnesium walker for crippled adults and children, which weighs less than a quart of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Light Heavyweight | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Processing Co. put on the market canned milk which tastes much like fresh milk and has the same food value. It is homogenized, pasteurized, sealed in cans and sterilized, has kept as long as 18 months at room temperature without spoiling or losing its taste. Price about 23? a quart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

After six months of studying and experimenting at Monte Carlo's world-famed Oceanographic Institute, Bombard concluded that limited quantities of sea water (not more than a quart a day) plus fluids pressed from raw fish can supply the body's need for water without harm to the system. He also concluded that fish contain all the nutrients necessary to health except vitamin C, which can be obtained from plankton. Bombard saw no reason why a man equipped with fishing tackle and fine-mesh nets for gathering plankton could not obtain from the sea enough food and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: The Young Man & the Sea | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Roddy-Eden, 29, after 13 days of marriage. Reporters interviewing the unhappy couple came away with the clearest account to date of the Manville marriage system. The trouble, said Mrs. Manville No. 9, began with a quarrel on the twelfth day of their honeymoon after Tommy had drunk two quarts of gin and a quart of Dubonnet at a single sitting. The trouble, said Tommy, was with Anita. How about wife No. 10? After the details of this divorce are cleaned up, said Manville, he might consider marrying Anita's twin sister. "I am probably very much in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Brown Study | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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