Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaucho socialism at first transformed cattle-and sheep-growing Uruguay into a Latin American Utopia, Uruguayans into devoted followers of the Colorados. They got pensions (usually starting at 50) and the eight-hour day 20 years before the U.S. did. They got a vast network of government industries: insurance, rum, cement, petroleum refining and distribution, electricity. They got paid leave for expectant working mothers, state-paid funerals. They paid no income taxes; intricate exchange rates, in effect export duties on wool and beef, met the bills...
Business in rebel country is nearly dead. The 'Esso distributor in Santiago, who used to sell 2,000,000 gal. of gas monthly, now sells 250,000; the Pepsi-Cola, Coca Cola and Canada Dry plants operate only two or three days a month. Bacardi Rum's main plant, which used to produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight...
...reach such goals, Khrushchev will not only have to raid Soviet high schools for manpower but also command a Soviet working force of heroic sobriety. Rolling on to his native village of Kalinovka on the northern edge of the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev declared war on demon rum. "The government is now drafting sterner measures against this evil." he told the villagers. "In restaurants we shall establish this rule: if you order spirits, you will be served one shot, but a second shot will be prohibited. Some may say so what; if they don't serve us in this restaurant...
...colonial days, Kentuckians (then Virginians) with a whisky taste had trouble chasing away the demon rum. The rum-makers once put through a law boosting the legal price to $15 a half pint. The Bourbon County grand jury even indicted James Garrard, a Baptist minister who later became Governor of the state, for illegal whisky selling. But by 1789, tenacious Bourbon County distillers had finally given corn likker an old Kentucky home. Though ten years ago bourbon was only 13% of total domestic whisky sold, last year it was 47%. Last week bourbon reached another pinnacle: in nationwide newspaper...
...worth of mortars, antitank guns, rifles and medical supplies headed for Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces. Next day, in luxurious homes along Biscayne Boulevard, in such southwestern Miami hangouts as the neonbright Blue Derby Restaurant and the Tropicana dance hall, Cuban faces were as long as a rum sour. And Cubans were not the only residents of Miami with a particular interest in the night's events. The city is a hive of revolutionists; hardly a day goes by without at least one new plot abrewing...