Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Statistics & Suspicions. One big reason the public behaved badly was that the distilling industry, trying to stem the panic, has stressed statistics that seem to prove that the U.S. has up to a four-year supply. On Sept. 30, the U.S. had 406,000,000 gal. of whiskey in stock v. 1942!s consumption of around 92,000,000 gal. That is all there will be until war's end and then some, since whiskey makers are 100% converted to the manufacture of industrial alcohol...
...reserve supply is nowhere near as big as it sounds: almost 100,000,000 gal. will disappear in "shrinkage" and evaporation before it gets bottled, another 100,000,000 gal. is being held as a last-ditch reserve for blending with new stocks, come peace. And around one-third of the remaining 200,000,000 gal. is not yet two years old. Whiskey consumption is at the rate of 87,000,000 gal. a year...
...there was a distinctly psychopathic strain in the old Austin High School crowd, which included Jimmy and Rich MacUartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Frank Teschemacher, and allied members such as Dave Hough, Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa, Joe Sullivan, Muggsy Spanier, and Mezz Mezzrow. For instance, Tesch married a gal who used to pour nothing but straight gin on her corn flakes...
...answer to how big is a WAVE, according to the survey, is 5 feet, 4 inches in height, 124 pounds in weight, the gal is also 28 years old, has brown hair, graduated from college and has business or teaching experience. Now all you have to do is go out and find...
...Whiskey stocks are estimated at about a two-year supply but gin is down to a mere 207,000 gal...