Word: scotchness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four singing sons of aging (55) Groaner Bing Crosby soon found close harmony impossible. Their price tag was $12,500 for a week, but they only lasted three days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied...
...well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
Japan announced that within 16 months it will cancel restrictions on a wide range of dollar imports, including bourbon (though the Japanese prefer Scotch), TV sets, household appliances, autos and cosmetics. Biggest item will be liberalization of such vital U.S. supplies as soybeans, scrap iron, hides and tallow, which should capture an even bigger share of the Japanese market, boost total U.S. sales to Japan by 5% ($40 million...
...finance the undeveloped, while many a rebuilt, well-financed country has maintained tariff walls against U.S. goods or tight controls on dollar purchases. Samples: Britain still limits or bars a long list of U.S. goods ranging from construction machinery to comic books; France excludes U.S. bourbon while buying British Scotch; Japan requires licensing for 70% of her imports, will not let Japanese businessmen buy some imports from the U.S. even when U.S. prices are cheaper. Last week...
...Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister mixture...