Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another front, the storm clouds over Godfrey were dissolved in a flood of financial sunshine. CBS reported that the programs relinquished by Godfrey's long time sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes had all been bought up by four other advertisers: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (Scotch tape), Toni Co., Pillsbury Mills and Frigidaire...
Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...Scotch & Democracy. Mlle. de Beauvoir did not like the taste of whisky, but at one point she drank Scotch until 3 in the morning "because Scotch is the key to America." She was astonished at the "sudden warmth and cordial simplicity" of Americans, and "American generosity" left her "feeling ashamed." In fact, she liked Americans so much that she wrote: "How I regretted that I could not feel more generously towards a country where the reign of man asserts itself so bravely...
...that could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
...Yale Center of Alcohol Studies sits unobtrusively without any identification--squat but spacious like a bottle of Ballantine's scotch. Undoubtedly built in the 19th century, its four stories have mahogany-toned woodwork and a faded coat of yellow paint, which partially conceals stone, stucco, or something...