Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of an average Air Corps detachment showed that out of 100 soldiers, 58 drank no alcoholic beverages, 31 only beer, eleven hard liquor...
...along the northern frontier of the U.S. In Canada, which more than once in World War II has been a proving ground for measures later introduced by Washington.* Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King took steps to cut down drinking. He announced sharp reductions in the alcoholic content of beer and liquors-beer by 10%, wine by 20%, spirits by 30%. He also forbade all advertising of beer and liquors after a six weeks' adjustment period, asked for shorter selling hours in liquor stores...
...there were a bottle of beer or a flask of Scotch in the 180,000 square miles of Allied New Guinea, some of the thousands of doughboys now fighting in 98° temperature of the north-coast jungles might be able to build up some sort of festive spirit this Christmas. But there...
...rupees-My first bill at the Cecil, which is really a great hotel. But they've run out of Western whiskies, so now they are serving such tiger wash as "Dew of the Himalayas." They have no beer either, but only stout. Our Bill Fisher likes stout, but he's a Yale...
...everyone, from Social Crediters to Tory capitalists, whom he has nonetheless criticized for draining the wealth of the prairies into industrial Ontario. He has espoused closer cooperation with the U.S. and industrialization of Canada's West. Shortly before World War II he bartered prairie wheat for Munich beer. His policy handsprings have been epic but grounded in three basic beliefs: 1) social security for all; 2) the need to remove world trade barriers; 3) the right of all to live in a world of "peace and plenty...