Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration began to unwind the rationing program. Gin was already flowing out of distilleries in place of war alcohol; whiskey was back on the dealers' shelves, in plain sight of the voters. And then Sept. 17 was set as the day when all processed foods except canned fruits and a few other items will be unrationed...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...
Fetch that gin son and I'll spill payoff...
...news promptly brought out supplies of whiskey which had been hoarded in stores across the nation. And many a retailer whose shelves are loaded with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...
...Africa, Alexander replaced Auchinleck as commander of the British Middle East Forces when Rommel was battering at the gates of Alexandria. He was at a relief job again. Cool as a cucumber in a gin sling and twice as impersonal, he planned and mounted the great attack which General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery brilliantly executed-and Rommel was rolled all the way back to Tripolitania...