Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bahnstrasse, on the edge of Berlin's U.S. sector, is a small restaurant named Rodestock's. One evening last week, while a score of Germans sat around drinking Rodestock's watery beer, three smartly dressed U.S. paratroopers, white gloves folded under their shoulder straps, strode in and sat down. But only for a moment. Suddenly they were on their feet, with guns drawn. Rodestock's terrified patrons backed against the wall. Swiftly the soldiers frisked them, gathered up watches, cheap jewelry and a few thousand marks. They emptied the cash register and locked Rodestock...
...lived, as boom towns do, at a dizzy pace. In 1936 it had a population of 4,000 and was a hell-roaring mining camp in a valley in the middle of nowhere. Prospectors got there by plane, dog sled or canoe until a road was built. Beer was $1 a bottle. A town census registered 46 different nationalities. Shady characters prospered like green bay trees. In 1936, the first year that Val D'Or had a police force, Chief Leo Therien led a raid through the town's 300 unpainted board-and-tarpaper shacks, arrested 112 prostitutes...
Imogene Stevens, 24, sloe-eyed Texan who last June jolted staid New Canaan, Conn, by bumping off Seaman Al Kovacs, 19, in an "aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing reprisals" (so said Coroner Theodore E. Steiber), returned from a summer of Army camping with her husband, Major George R. Stevens III. Rumor said that she might seek a change of venue for her impending manslaughter trial because of public prejudice...
Foiled! In Cincinnati, Samuel Brown left his girl friend in his apartment when he went to get some beer, took her dress so she wouldn't run out, returned to find that she had - with his other pants...
Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, rivaled in popularity only by Lili Marlene, which had more homesick appeal, but less oompah...