Word: applejack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last minute his world collapsed--that Jersey Lightning applejack would sweep the nation and make his enormous investment in applejack distilleries pay off. These two elements--an unthinking crossing of the line between the legal and the illegal in the search for solvency, and a never-ending faith in speculation--are what make Whitney a prototype of American financiers...
...Vermont, a town which will probably satisfy your expectations of what Robert Frost's home town should look like, You find little more than a post office, a phone booth and a combination gas station and general store dealing in two-for-a-penny-candy, dusty bottles of aspirin, applejack, Vermont cheese (kept under the moldy wooden bowl, and cheap), woolen socks, fishing tackle, and peanuts from a chipped enamel peanut roaster apparently left over from the Big-Top Circus days...