Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
...desiring positions on any of the four boards--news, editorial, business and photographic--are asked to report to the Crimson office at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow. The beer isn't all gone yet, nor are the words of wisdom Crimeditors perenially dispense to incoming competitors...
...Cream. Some of the props for this extravaganza were hard to find. The average pop drinker would get only 30 bottles of his favorite carbonated beverage (as compared to a prewar plenty of 50). Marshmallows were short. So was beer. Buying a fly rod called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast to coast...
Most class-reunion outfits were boisterous refinements of the Princeton seniors' "beer suits" (painters' white overalls and white jackets). The solid citizens of the Class of 1922 crashed through with the loudest and fanciest variation: black-&-orange plaid overalls, and blue-grey jackets with matching plaid pockets...
...Fresh Beer, Stale Gags. There were bull sessions everywhere and at all hours, and 75 kegs of beer to keep them afloat. There were a few more formal meetings of minds: in Baker Rink, Physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, who wrote the War Department's Smyth Report, ran a forum on atomic energy. But most of the talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate...