Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liquor Question...
...outfit. He's the best soldier we have. The kid's hard as nails. He has character, brains, personality-and more surplus energy than anyone I've ever known. Like all 18-year-olds, he's up against the problems of women and liquor. A flat "No" certainly isn't the answer to those problems. It's a tough stage for any youngster. And I don't think prohibition is making it easier for him to work it out for himself...
...young friend is a sergeant pilot-making $144 a month. He can afford the bootleg liquor. So he's not learning to drink beer or good whiskey on his nights off-but to drink rotgut straight. As he told me this morning, amid groans, "the stuff tastes so terrible, the only thing you can do is to get drunk as quick as possible so you can't taste...
Effective Monday, November 2, there will be a proportional Federal tax on all Liquor sales, the Treasury Department announced recently. --Boston Herald, October...
...does today under acute difficulties. Where last year there were 16 shows, last week there were some 30. Audiences may have bus and blackout headaches, may grouse because seats cost from sixpence to four shillings more than they used to. But with petrol rationed, jaunts are few. With the liquor shortage, parties are fizzles. So cinema & theater offer the readiest escape...