Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians had brought progress to Outer Mongolia in the form of airplanes, machine guns and socialism. Into Inner Mongolia, the ancient land of temple gongs, ten-foot-long ceremonial horns, and monks chanting prayers by lonely lamaseries, the Japanese introduced neon signs, phonographs and beer halls. In the bleak steppe winters they shivered and dreamed of cherry blossoms. They also feverishly built empire...
Postmaster General Robert Hanne-gan surprised Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly by assimilating a heroic-sized "Black Cow" -six scoops of ice cream in three bottles of root beer. A pop-eyed Chicago Daily News editorialist pointed a moral: "This is an age of power, size and grandeur...
...easy. During the '305, he won two Cubs' pennants in three years, then was banished to the minors when his '38 team began cracking in midseason. Rescued from Milwaukee last year, he had become philosophical enough to treat his adult hired-help like adults. He served beer in the dressing room after each game, and concentrated on getting team spirit. How well the spirit moves the Cubs is apparent in their record: they have won 42 of their last 54 games...
...ration points. Beef was sometimes obtainable until the end of last year. Since then people have been eating dog and horse meat. Fish has been almost non-existent since last fall. Chickens and eggs are only for children, expectant mothers and hospital patients. There has been no beer or sake since last February...
...recreation island, Mogmog, was in a class by itself: as many as 15,000 sea-wobbly sailors, going ashore for the first time in weeks or months, could swim, play basketball there, curse the sand and everything else in the tropics, and drink (beer for enlisted men, blended whiskey for officers). There was thatched 100-ft. bar for junior officers, a 50-ft. bar for lieutenant commanders and up; a third, and better, lounge with chairs for admirals (as many as 20 at a time could be found there...