Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bugs in the Belfry Sirs: The cockroach that invaded The Bronx (TIME, Aug. 2) not only flies and is fond of beer, but is equally fond of rayon, insulation from wires and the goo from radio resistors...
...limited manpower has been scraped to the bottom, every town and city is suffering from overcrowding, food shortages, lack of personnel in ordinary services. Domestic servants are as scarce as the platypus. It is a prospector's job to buy a package of cigarets or a glass of beer. The people's clothes are getting shabby. It is hard to buy simple things like matches and writing paper, impossible to buy golf or tennis balls, almost impossible to buy a razor blade...
...British general led three hip-hip-hoorays. The 86-piece Army band broke out with the Beer Barrel Polka, Ike Eisenhower's favorite tune. Four-starred temporary General Eisenhower stepped down to accept double congratulations. The day before he had received notice of his promotion to permanent full colonel in the regular U.S. Army. Inevitable Army red tape then asserted itself: he was ordered to an Army doctor for a physical examination to show his fitness for the promotion...
...tons of bombs in seven night raids by the R.A.F., two daylight attacks by U.S. bombers. Dante's Inferno, said one, was incomparable with Hamburg. Entire city districts were wiped out: St. Pauli, known to sailors the world over for its roller coasters, shooting galleries, beer halls and other places of amusement; Altona, the "Red district" of pre-Hitler days, where Communists and Nazis had fought bitter, bloody battles on the streets; the harbor with its huge shipyards, docks and warehouses...
Safe at their British air base after a tough raid over Kiel, two U.S. staff sergeants felt a yearning for the beer pots of the nearest village. The only form of transportation was a single bicycle, so off they went, one sergeant pedaling, the other perched on the handle ' bars. Just outside the town an M.P. flagged them down, made them get off. Too dangerous...