Word: repeals
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California had its own cataclysm in the 1920s: Prohibition. Many of Haraszthy's precious vines were ripped up. By the time of repeal in 1933, only a handful of vintners were left, turning out spirits supposedly for sacramental or pharmaceutical purposes. Against this dismal backdrop, Ernest and Julio Gallo entered the business...
...immigrant from Italy's northern Piedmont. "We had a tractor in the barn, but we didn't have enough money to buy gas," recalls Ernest. "Instead, we used four mules and worked the vineyards seven days a week from daylight to dusk." With the first stirrings of repeal, they dug up $5,900.23 in capital and set out to produce their own wine. They rented a railroad shed for $60 a month, bought a $2,000 grape crusher and redwood tanks on 90-to 180-day terms...
...Kentucky Democrat Walter D. Huddleston, 46, is generally known as "Dee," from hi? middle initial. The nickname was a handy one during his successful campaign for the Senate seat vacated by Republican John Sherman Cooper. As state senate majority leader, Huddleston helped repeal a 5% sales tax on food items that Kentuckians vigorously resented; the tax, as it happened, had been raised by his opponent, former Governor Louie B. Nunn (no kin to Georgia's new Senator Sam Nunn). Huddleston labeled Oct. 1, when the tax repeal on food items took effect, as "Dee-day" and reminded voters...
...referendum, which was on the ballot in 18 cities and towns throughout the state, instructs district representatives in the state legislature to vote for repeal of the current laws. However, the referendum is not legally binding...
Joseph Riley, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, charged yesterday that pro-abortion activists had sought to put the abortion question to a referendum only in those localities likely to endorse the repeal of existing statutes...