Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor stocks show that Cantabridgians will spend a liquid New Year's Eve, yet there is still some possibility that once again some daring young Freshman will cut loose in the Yard and get the squirrels stinko on Scotch...
...wood and cardboard substitutes for metal trains, wagons and toys: "They won't last until Christmas . . . and probably not long after Christmas either." Also missing from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through ten freezing hours for a chance to carry away a bottle...
...Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, G.O.P. national, state and county committeemen from eleven western states met for a two-day "Save America" powwow. Most committeemen were content to grouse about the liquor shortage, while their political optimism ran high. They listened to optimistic speeches, passed routine anti-New Deal resolutions...
...There are a couple of meatless days a week in many places and steaks are very scarce. Yet I know places in Washington where you can get steak every night. They are not black-market either. It's almost impossible to buy liquor by the bottle, but you can still get plenty by the drink. Sure, you can get milk and eggs...
Whiskey, whether rye or anything else, was completely out of stock at the Pro, and very low at all stores. Liquor dealers, gloating over the weather, wished only that the weather-chilled students would accept substitutes for the scarce strong waters. Harvard men seem unwilling to be put off with...