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...soon became publisher of the Territorial Enterprise and a full-time Westerner. Now he writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden...
Alaska, one of the drinkingest spots in the world (per capita average: 3 gal. of hard liquor a year, compared to 1½ gal. in the U.S.), is drying up. It is all the fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with...
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