Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry legislators into drying up local areas all over the country. Their favorite piece of legislation is the Sheppard Bill, now receiving the lackluster attention of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The bill combines three pious prohibitions: 1) of prostitution in camp areas; 2) of the sale of all liquor in camps themselves; 3) of liquor in areas around the camps...
...Smith would like to see restored the old Army Canteen Act of 1901, prohibiting all liquor on military reservations -with an added prohibition against liquor in nearby areas. Like all W.C.T.Uers, Mrs. Smith does not believe in moderation. She wants total abstinence and no back talk. Would you, she inquires, recommend opium, in moderation...
...oldtime reminiscences. A full-fledged editor at 18, he had tangled in many a garrulous crusade against North Carolina railroads, tobacco and power companies. Great pal of William Jennings Bryan (of whom he wrote an 8,000-word obituary in six hours) and a hard-shelled Dry, he banned liquor on Navy ships...
...Club Room at the New Albany Hotel has been enlarged to thrice its prewar size, is soon to be enlarged again. Two new nighteries have sprung up on the city's outskirts, complete with music, liquor, slot machines, gambling. Syphilis in Albany has taken an upward turn. Albany's far-famed, carefully supervised red-light district, which used to advertise its wares in neon lights, is doing an embarrassingly brisk trade...
...Liquor stills normally use neither cane syrup nor molasses; they use grain (mostly corn). This is plentiful, but expensive. To make alcohol profitable for the distillers, OPA last month raised the price ceiling from...