Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis at the Crillon. In Britain, the Thames was frozen over at Windsor, and primroses just budding in Wales withered in the frost. Alarming reports came from Kent, where snowed-in pubs were running out of beer. But the cold wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to Britain. Trains and trucks stood idle, schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold...
...paused in his drive for power. He bought politicians wholesale and had complete immunity from the law-from 1923 to 1926 Chicago had 135 gang killings, six arrests, one conviction, no executions. He gained control of gambling, prostitution, dance halls, dog tracks and roadhouses as well as the enormous beer and liquor business. The U.S. called him Public Enemy...
Down: Meat & Beer. All week long Britons were bombarded by bad news, dark predictions and more austerity. The Government served notice of a cut in fresh meat rations, and warned that bread and bacon rations might be cut. Mrs. Rose Wood of Arrington, Cheshire, sent Food Minister John Strachey two ounces of bacon and an ounce of cooking fat with a sizzling note suggesting that he "take this back and export it with the other things...
Added Mrs. Wood: "Why don't you export yourself with it?" The pubs got word of a cut in beer deliveries, perhaps by as much as 50%, because breweries were hard hit by conservation cuts in coal allocations. So were thousands of homes, Stores, offices, factories. (There was one chirpy note. London's Tribune whistled: "Now let's be reasonable. This wide-eyed enthusiasm for bad news can be overdone...
...volunteers live in a group of twelve cottages facing Salisbury Plain. Paired off two to a cottage, they have meals delivered at the door, enjoy a free pint of beer or cider daily, newspapers, magazines, unlimited long-distance telephone service, a nine-hole golf links. Only restriction: guests must keep a 30-yard distance from everyone but their cottage partners. Visitors are not allowed unless heavily masked...