Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does his best to steer clear of pious advice. His main job, as he sees it, is to provide an opportunity for worship to men who are isolated for months at a time. He also tries to be a good listener to tales of woe about women, money and liquor...
Only once in his life, when he was 42 and seriously ill, have his lips touched hard liquor. The doctor pried his teeth apart and forced some brandy down his throat to stimulate his heart. Arthur immediately revived, sat up and spat. "If I had been a drinker," he now says, "the brandy would have had no effect on me. By never drinking, my life was saved by drinking...
...During 1946, the Department of Commerce reported, Americans spent a record $8,700,000,000 on liquor...
...free port without paying duties and without posting bonds; they can store their merchandise, sort it and repack it for export. Only if & when the goods enter the country proper are they dutiable. The day New Orleans' free port opened, it got its first customer-a Chicago liquor importer who planned to keep his liquor there in kegs, import it in bottles as needed...
Also on the ballot were a music center, an enlarged infirmary and the monument, but 92 independents took advantage of their write-in privileges and came up with such original suggestions as a veterans bonus and an endowed liquor establishment...