Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have to be displaced by a grey-or cream-colored bread*; the President decreed that wheat flour be made from 80% instead of the normal 70% of the whole grain. Production of whiskey and of other grain alcohol beverages would have to be cut back to wartime levels. Beer brewing would have to be cut by 30% (back to the 1940 rate). The wartime set-aside of pork for Government purchase was reinstated. The President warned the U.S. that it might even have to go back to meat rationing...
Then, about the end of April, he would be going home for good. There, on his farm at Garrowby on the rolling Yorkshire fields, he could talk crops, ride to hounds, drink the homemade beer from nearby Hickleton Hall. He might even drop in from time to time at the House of Lords, "where, you know, one has always the right to make a boring speech...
...Witness François Boix, French, remembered a special ceremony at Mauthausen concentration camp at which a prisoner was hanged while a gypsy orchestra, in mocking counterpoint to death, fiddled through the Beer Barrel Polka and J'attendrai...
...floor show had to be called off when hilarious veterans scrambled to get into the act and airmen distracted the audience with a rousing crap game. Bottles of beer consumed were measured in thousands; no one dared to estimate (or particularly cared) how much strong stuff was downed...
...time for the rain makers. In the kraals the witch doctors prepared to use their muti (medicine). In Parliament Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts proclaimed a national day of prayer for rain. On the advice of their witch doctors, Basutos climbed their peaks with calabashes of Kaffir beer to propitiate their ancestors. But no rain came...