Word: whiskeys
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...could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
...fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows, there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Some times they even slug law abiding citizens...
...federal alcohol tax unit arrested the chief of Charleston (S.C.) County's police and eight of his cops, charged them with convoying moonshine for friendly bootleggers, and engaging in the whole, sale sale of illicit whiskey themselves...
Local experts concede little chance of the prohibition referendums passing. Each is clearly worded to prohibit a specific type of liquor: whiskey of all sorts, beers and ales, and wines. Similar referendums have been voted down...
...such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas prison reform. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led Galveston citizens in keeping order after the 1900 hurricane. Said a longtime friend and Texas judge: "If ever saber rattling passes from the earth, it will be because of the Henry Cohens...