Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention the "hard, unhappy-looking men" keeping to themselves along the Atlantic City boardwalk and brooding over their 3.2 beer [TIME, Sept.11]. I was one of the original band who opened the redistribution center in October of 1943. We were "war-wearies" from all theaters and had had more than our fill of combat, but we were too happy to be home and alive to do any brooding. After the first shock of being treated like gentlemen we settled down to enjoy the marvelous facilities the army provided for our entertainment and enjoyment. We did not avoid civilians...
...unusual source, he said, was Manhattan's Worldwide Mercantile Corp., which conveniently shared its office with Consolidated Industries. A contact man for Consolidated Industries, said he, was none other than Irving Wexler, 58, alias Waxey Gordon, the beefy, slit-eyed top dog of New York City's beer runners in the lush days of Prohibition...
...made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service found an average of 7,000,000 bacteria per beer glass (the notion that alcohol makes a glass safe...
...sympathetic officer gave up his cabin to Hugh and Ella Shake for the two and a half days the ship was in port. Mrs. Shake had been so sure of finding her husband that she had brought along two cases of beer, also paints and canvases for Lieut. Shake, who likes to paint...
French Fried Potatoes. Most coaches were too busy training their freshmen fondlings to indulge in the old practice of crying into their beer. Their apple-cheeked youngsters actually looked pretty smooth in varsity uniforms, especially when braced here & there by veteran 4-Fers...