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They seem to have forgotten, however, the baleful effects of their last great triumph. Most sociologists agree that the origin of the vexing "youth problem" of the 1920's was inextricably linked with Prohibition. Sporting flasks and muttering recipes for bathtub gin, American youth of the 20's indulged in more drinking than any generation before or since. Drunken youths were a common sight on the stairs of every entry in Harvard halls. The nation's youth is not only more temperate now than during Prohibition, but the Army has done an excellent job of keeping order in camp...
...Every time I shave I cut my Adam's apple." This plaintive observation burst one day from Johnny Mercer, a nondescript, drawling Southerner who had been hanging onto the fringes of Broadway at the tail end of the gin & depression era. From force of habit, Johnny Mercer made a song out of it. The song made...
Although there is an adequate liquor supply for a medium term war (warehouses bulge with enough to last four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...
...throat. I wanted her to keep on singing. I choked her. How could she keep on singing when I choked her?" Later he said: "Fancy my being a murderer! I guess that Thompson girl was the hardest. She was strong and, oh boy, could she drink gin squashes! She told me I had a baby face, but I am wicked underneath...
...pesky milkweed, cursed by farmers, has found a use-as a substitute for kapok. With a newly invented milkweed gin, a Michigan factory will next month start removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...