Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bertram entries in last week's race included Lucky Moppie, his own 31-footer, equipped with twin 380-h.p. Daytona Marine engines; Vivacity, a 38-ft., diesel-powered Bertram owned by British Newspaper Publisher Max Aitken; and Rum Runner, a 31-ft. bomb, driven by Florida's Harold Abbott, whose twin 521-h.p. Holman-Moody Ford engines made it the most powerful boat in the race. For competition, there were 32 other boats. General Motors pinned its hopes on Allied 36 and Allied GX, a pair of 40-ft. monsters powered by twin 315-h.p. G.M. diesels. From...
...precious necklace of islands in 1815, it was not until 1946 that the colonies became fullfledged departments of metropolitan France. Since then Paris has pumped in funds for new schools, roads, hospitals and public buildings. But while the islands' few small industries-sugar, bananas, pineapple and rum-expanded rapidly, wages stayed low and employment failed to keep pace with a 3% birth rate; 290,000 people are crowded onto tiny Martinique (425 sq. mi.), 280,000 on Guadeloupe...
Banking is only part of the boom. The main island of New Providence will soon have a new $2,800,000 Bacardi rum factory; such firms as Bethlehem Steel, Whirlpool, Owens-Illinois Glass and Outboard Marine have come in with overseas sales offices. On Grand Bahama, a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal pumps more than 1,000,000 bbl. of marine fuel a month into vessels from all over the world, while close by a subsidiary of U.S. Steel is building a $50 million cement plant. Even the cold war is pumping life into the sultry economy...
...balanced her in a luxus of mind, shimmering, orbicular .... eldetic smells of the sterness yet warmness of rum manufactured themselves somewhere in his brain, an acidotic Juice of eye, tympanum, olfactory endings, paplliae, ran over its pink cortex as from torn fruit flesh...
...above all, no booze. From this proposition Chicago's Roman Catholic Little Brothers of the Poor dissent in every respect, except that the main dish must be traditional. Last week they started their dinner for 350 of the city's aged and indigent by serving hot rum punch. They embellished the meal itself with lobster salad, cake, and compote of fruit flambé, expertly cooked by the Little Brothers. They served French champagne, and the 117 dozen roses used as table decorations were given away to the guests afterward...