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Word: splo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiger Blood. Making moonshine is easy, and the profits are large. Racketeers copy the big distillers' methods. The pale, unaged liquid that results is "white light-nin'," "white mule," "Splo," or "tiger blood." Many a Southern countryman would rather drink it than store whisky. One lead-bellied Georgia farmer told a Treasury agent: "I bought legal once. Couldn't stand the stuff. Threw it to the hogs 'n they all died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: PopskulPs Progress | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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