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...colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman...
...being taxed at record levels); cigars and pipe tobacco are booming, too. WPB has gone on record as considering that basic cosmetics (powder, rouge, lipstick, cold cream) are "essential"-though favorite brands and esoteric colors and concoctions may disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women...
...team is filled with sissies wot won't guzzle rye or gin...
...talk is of a cut to 50%. Some alarmists said the Govern-ment would take over the whole business-buying, selling and distributing. OPA big shots wondered how to ration coffee, tentatively planned to use the sugar cards, already distributed. But U.S. citizens were worried most of all-with gin, Coca-Cola, tea and coffee all scarce or near-scarce, the future had a milk & water look...
...student neither drinks, smokes a pipe, indulges in sports, or has a victroia, he is going to find the next years at College a time of great shortage, a survey of stores around the Square reveals. The liquor situation in particular is becoming acute, with existing stocks of gin almost exhausted while the government plans to take over distilleries for war purposes. Furthermore, the manufacture of rum has been seriously curtailed, leaving whiskey and been the only liquor staples whose sale will remain unaffected...