Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, U.S. drinkers had the jitters about a possible liquor shortage. Their rush to stock up moved several whisky distributors to put dealers on temporary allocations, and the heedless excess last week brought customers quick hangovers. Schenley Distillers, Inc. announced that it was hiking its eight-year-old, 100-proof rye and bourbon $1.35 a fifth, bringing the price in some localities...
...with the Body! From Newgate's governor down to the lowliest keeper, every prison official had his private source of income. The governor sold liquor and encouraged his charges to get drunk. For a price, a prisoner could get a drink of water, have his manacles removed, or sleep with a woman. "Even the prisoners themselves imposed a charge for what they called 'chummage'" upon a newcomer, in return for which he could have a seat near the fire...
...already had large surpluses in the cupboard (see BUSINESS). Sugar hoarding was unnecessary and foolish. Barring the kind of panic buying that brings on the controls that nobody wants, there should be enough meat and other foods, gasoline, sheets, soap, cooking fats, men's shirts, nylons, cigarettes, liquor, and women's & children's clothing. (Apparel wool for men's suits is not so plentiful, but probably adequate...
...workers of Idaho's rich Camas Prairie soil, four strapping young bucks from Indian reservations had the time, the money, and the inclination to go off on a hard-drinking tear every now & again although federal law prohibits sale of liquor to Indians. One night last October, roaring drunk, the four got caught up in the wheeze and clang of Idaho's legal machinery and almost mangled...
Clean Sweep. In London, thieves broke into the Avenue Hotel, made off with 4,800 cigarettes, 140 bottles of liquor, a radio set, the watchdog...