Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elisha Walker has long been accustomed to dealing in sums ending in six zeroes and with such titans of finance and industry as Harry F. Sinclair (oil), Frederick H. Prince (railroads), Eugene G. Grace (steel), Amadeo P. Giannini (banks), Joseph P. Kennedy (whiskey, real estate), and Bernard M. Baruch (investments and advice to Presidents...
...Bastille Day vacation swelled the crowds that plowed up the fine beach, cheered as postwar merveilleuses displayed the world's scantiest bathing suits and vied in U.S.-style beauty contests. At the Bar du Soleil, Englishmen paid 200 francs for a thimbleful of whiskey. At the Hotel Normandy guests paid 1,200 francs for a room. Restaurants charged 200 francs for a dinner of soup, eggs or fish, one vegetable, one peach...
After the fatigue of the day, the American has no taste for the leisure of his evenings or his holidays. Either he has his bed; or radio, a movie, whiskey. . . . Above all, no thinking. One escapes from reflection, meditation, solitude. Yet, what is civilization if not the proper use of leisure...
Pearl Buck, Marquis Childs, Roger Butterfield, Raymond Swing and many others had forwarded autographed pictures for the walls; Author Stuart Cloete had simply sent along a tear-sheet of a whiskey advertisement which showed him as a "Man of Distinction." The staff decided-to leave the red rose designs on the bathtub and the other old-fashioned fixtures just as they were. A sign on the hall door indicated that this was, or had been, the home...
...year (tax free) presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had gone begging for months. Several prospects had rejected the job. Then Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan began thumping the drums for ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, now a real-estate and Scotch-whiskey tycoon. That got action, but of an unexpected sort...