Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy a unit of 4.2s knocked out a battery of German 88s which weigh several tons. The 4.2 mortar weighs about 300 lb. Broken down into base plate, spade, barrel and standard, it can be manhandled into position by its own crew...
...buyer" gangs stripped store shelves of liquor for resale in Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom of its whiskey barrel: out-of-towners from the drought-struck sticks (plus jam-packed local bars) drained away almost all of New York City's bottled-in-bond...
Sirens wailed, ships' whistles bellowed the V-for-Victory. Bands played, pipers skirled and people sang old songs and the new hits. But when the tenders came in, the 4,000 repatriates were singing the song many had sung when they marched away to war: Roll Out the Barrel...
...purchase of a 95% interest in Frankfort Distilleries. Two other big deals are bruited: Allied Mills may sell its whiskey subsidiary, Century Distilling Co., for around $28,000,000; Park & Tilford is dickering for Brown Forman. In all these deals the buying price is more than $100 per barrel of whiskey stocks-a good deal more than their value on the books of the small fry selling...
...Cracker-Barrel Education. What the politicians did not know when they put him up for Governor was that Wilbur Cross had cut his eyeteeth while listening to political gossip as a clerk in a country store. One of Cross's earliest recollections is of overhearing a confidential conversation between Republican and Democratic town committee chairmen back in the vil lage of Gurleyville, in northeastern Connecticut. The leaders of the rival parties had just finished buying 54 votes at $5 a head, and each leader had kept $150 of the cash sent from Hartford headquarters as a "legitimate expense...