Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commission charged, the magazines of De Mel's flagship and an escorting frigate had been loaded with some $10,000 worth of bounty bought in duty-free ports. Main source was Singapore, where De Mel's bluejackets had joyously laid in 100 cases of Grant's Scotch, 25 cases of other brands of whisky, plus cases of rum, gin, brandy, champagne and beer, intended for disposal back home. Investigators added that the hot cargo also included crated refrigerators, hi-fi sets, transistor radios, furniture, rare Hong Kong vases and gold bangles-most, unfortunately, confiscated by Ceylon authorities...
Rising to a challenge by the Scotch university, the local peripatetics drove northwest of Cambridge to Fitchburg, where they began their hike back about...
Meanwhile McDowell waits... and waits. Men sit all day on porches doing nothing, hardly even talking. Lethargy pervades the town and seems to affect everyone in it. Howell tries to keep up enthusiasm with his claim that "if I can get someone to scotch for me we're gonna win," but to many this talk is losing its inspirational effect. The strikers are already deeply in debt for last fall's pickets, and this debt weighs heavily on them...
Whatever the source of its products, Prisunic usually sells them well below other popular brands, intends eventually to remove even the few outside brands it now permits on its shelves. The chain's own Scotch, Black Swan, sells for $4.50 a fifth v. $5.60 for Johnnie Walker Red Label. To undersell Nescafe instant coffee (43?-46?), Prisunic imported a Dutch blend, slapped on its own label and a 40? price tag. "Our aim," says General Manager Jacques Gueden, 52, "is the same as that of American discount houses-to undersell small-store competitors...
Almost all major U.S. distillers are now following the light. Schenley has expanded its Long John Distilleries in Scotland, and National Distillers will soon start importing an extralight Scotch. Kentucky's Brown-Forman has diversified from its heavy commitment to bourbons by importing Green Stripe Scotch and acquiring the U.S. rights to Amsterdam...