Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of an average Air Corps detachment showed that out of 100 soldiers, 58 drank no alcoholic beverages, 31 only beer, eleven hard liquor...
...northern frontier of the U.S. In Canada, which more than once in World War II has been a proving ground for measures later introduced by Washington.* Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King took steps to cut down drinking. He announced sharp reductions in the alcoholic content of beer and liquors-beer by 10%, wine by 20%, spirits by 30%. He also forbade all advertising of beer and liquors after a six weeks' adjustment period, asked for shorter selling hours in liquor stores...
Thirteen torpedoed British merchant seamen scrambled from their swamped lifeboat into a half-ship they found floating in mid-Atlantic. They wolfed the canned chicken, hardtack and liquor they found, but their "SS Stern" settled slowly. When its deck was barely awash they had a farewell party They drank their fill and hornpiped to the jangling tones of a portable phonograph. None of them remembered much after that until a passing ship picked them...
...prompted by the resurgence of the powerful dry lobby, and especially its efforts to force prohibition upon the areas surrounding Army posts. I wonder if the much-spoken-for "Mothers of America" really want their 18-and 19-year-old sons to come home used to drinking the cheapest liquor a pint at a time. ... I don't think it's sacrilege to include moderation in drinking as part of the American way. ... At the very least, it's a damn dirty trick to play on us while we're away...
Alaska, one of the drinkingest spots in the world (per capita average: 3 gal. of hard liquor a year, compared to 1½ gal. in the U.S.), is drying up. It is all the fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with...