Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anti-Saloon League's George W. Crabbe argued that the liquor business is a "nonessential, luxury enterprise...
...Wise Smith, 72 and perky, national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, testified that her organization represents "organized mother love" battling against the entrenched liquor czars. Further, said she, housewives are short of sugar because too much is being diverted to the breweries...
After dark the dog tracks and nightclubs are booming. At the West Flagler Kennel Club dog track an average of 3,500 fans nightly bet $100,000. The only wartime brake on nightclub hilarity is the lack of big-name entertainers. Liquor is plentiful, except Scotch, which sells on the black market at $120 a case...
...Liquor was scarce and natives bootlegged a poisonous quality of moonshine among U.S. troops. Although New Caledonians have little to sell, outside of ices and soft drinks, a few shopkeepers have profited inordinately at the expense of soldiers & sailors...
...Liquor shortages do not faze Arpad. New Year's Eve he will get tiddledy-boo drunk again. His nephew, Gabe, will have to pick up the pieces, pack Arpad safely home. It happens every year...