Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve months, U.S. citizens tossed off 190,000,000 gallons of whiskey, gin, brandy, rum and cordials, tying 1942's national, post-repeal record for drinking. They had trouble at home-in Reno a record 8,590 divorce suits were filed; in Hamilton County, Tenn., there were five times more marital split-ups than marriages; all across the nation the divorce rate boomed to new levels...
December. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...
Divorced. James Ramsey Ullman, 38, mountain-climbing, best-selling novelist (The White Tower), onetime Broadway producer: by Ruth Fishman Ullman, after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Tried & True. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...
Accumulated Dividends. In Reno, a new type of chain letter, using wives instead of dimes for currency, promised each man who kept up the chain 16,781 women...