Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people seemed to be in no mood for sacrificing. They kicked about beer shortages, grumbled slightly over the one roll per customer they found on some restaurant tables. It was still too early to tell how well housewives were responding to Government and private appeals to save breadstuffs and fats. Apparently it would take something stronger than the strongest appeals of Hoover and LaGuardia to stop the march of starvation...
...upon one another, upsetting a mammoth potted palm. Three delegates from South Bend bounded from bar to bar, doing a buck & wing and chanting "Reuther, -Reuther, rah, rah, rah!" Boardwalk concessionaires, who had never seen anything quite like it, consoled themselves by clipping delegates 75^ for a bottle of beer...
Hard-drinking Haligonians have long beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50? for a permit, had to wait in slow-moving queues at one of the four Government retail stores. If they were lucky, they got four quarts a month of Canadian rye or gin, or two of imported liquors. Attached to each bottle was an admonition to take it straight home...
...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...
Next day News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury twisted out a strange moral to this strange report.* The U.S. had to cut down on beer to send grains to Europe: "We suspect a prohibition angle to all this." Maybe, he continued, it would do Europe good to starve. Said the News...