Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCOTCH, by John Galbraith. In this memoir of his childhood in a frugal Scotch community in Ontario, the author of The Affluent Society documents the tightwad society. It is a diverting study of the Scotch and an intriguing, ironic insight into the formative influences that made Economist Galbraith an evangelist of big spending...
...year. It does a big business in carrying Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem, yearly flies Moslem pilgrims from all over the Middle East to Jeddah, the closest airport to Mecca. Though the Koran forbids liquor, Sheik Alamuddin provides it on most flights. Parched Moslem passengers can often be seen downing Scotch or cognac as soon as the planes take to the air on Middle East's early-morning flights from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...
...Scotch & Soda. Dowie's tastes run to Scotch and soda and Mozart, but his talent clearly is selling beer. "All beers taste pretty much alike in the U.S.," says Dowie, "so it boils down to who does the best promotion." He credits Carling's 15-year-old slogan, "Mabel! Black Label" for its surge in the U.S. market. Like many other brewers, he also bets heavily on sports sponsorships, last week laid out $450,000 for the Carling World Golf Championship tournament in Detroit...
...help. The catch is that the layman usually cannot tell the difference between this and a medically significant form of indigestion. This inflammation of the stomach (gastritis) is part of the pattern of peptic ulcer. Then the trouble is not a simple backup of the evening's Scotch, steak and potato but a too-free flow of hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices from the stomach walls into the stomach itself and the duodenum. The excess juices find a vulnerable spot in the stomach wall or duodenum and, in effect, digest that. The result is an ulcer...
...properties, held through an intricate maze of subsidiaries, span from the world's largest Scotch distillery, at Invergordon, to major holdings in downtown Toronto. Rayne, who has every intention of expanding his U.S. beachhead, figures that the planned G.M. building may well cost about as much as Manhattan's Pan Am building. That structure, which was 45% financed by a consortium of other British real estate men, ran to $100 million...