Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gin and Lemon. In Elizabeth, N.J., proposals for a new water-supply system were discussed by City Engineer Tom Collins...
Officials of Puget Sound Pulp hope to learn and earn enough from their exciting war baby to buy it from DPC after the war. Progressive Bellinghamites, envisioning a plant that may turn out anything from hair tonic to gin, as waste-pulp possibilities are explored, feel the plant may be the luck of their one-industry town, and a white hope of the whole Northwest...
Extraordinarily responsive to alcohol, Gould once gave gin its free rein, but now he's on the wagon. He claims he'll stay away from hard liquor until his ninetieth birthday; "then I'm going to get drunk and stay that way, even if it kills me." But the way things look now, nicotine may get him before alcohol...
...highly sought contact in the business, since he is allegedly able to turn an obscure song into a national hit with a couple of performances (example: White Christmas). In Manhattan, where the plugging fraternity boasts some 325 workers in sharply draped suits, some 35 play a weekly game of gin rummy with Fred Waring in a Broadway automat...
...francs for room, 135 francs for lunch and dinner, about 200 francs in necessary tips, except before dinner when I invited two business friends to the room for a drink. Somebody had given me a bottle of vermouth and the headwaiter assured me he could furnish a bottle of gin to make some Martinis. When the waiter arrived with the gin he asked me if I would mind paying for it in cash. I said I would be glad to and how much was it? 2000 francs! So this little bit of hospitality cost me just 40 cold American dollars...