Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bootleggers, highjackers and just plain thirsty visitors from the drought areas finally dried up the wet areas too. Minneapolis and St. Paul ran out of whiskey because bootleggers bought up the local supply and smuggled it to Seattle, where parched citizens gladly paid up to $8 a pint. In Washington, D.C., organized '"booze-buyer" gangs stripped store shelves of liquor for resale in Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom...
...poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell of Dunfermline said: "Our average daily menu was a half-pint of herb tea, a quart of soup (turnips and hot water), twelve ounces of black bread and once in a while a small piece of sausage...
...from X Base. More than a year ago pint-sized Captain James Arthur Kehoe, onetime Kentucky tobacco farmer, sallied into the Burma jungles with a bowie knife and a sackful of cheap watches for trading (TIME, May 31). Kehoe was off to negotiate with Naga headhunters for military outposts and to survey the wild country through which the new road was to pass. Last December the engineers moved surreptitiously into rolling green tea gardens on the far eastern fringes of India's Assam Province. There they set up "X Base" near a little one-lane gravelly road which British...
...economy of the north country. Soon Imperial capped its wells, laid low until 1932 when the radium and the later gold-mining push at Great Bear Lake and Yellowknife, and the advent of air communication, made a teakettle refinery at Norman Wells worth while. For ten years the half-pint plant was operated in the open-water season, closed down for the winter...
Kill or Be Killed, directed by Len Lye, is a sample British Army training film, which quietly dramatizes the protracted, silent, sinister contest between a Nazi sniper and a British soldier. The British soldier is as stolid and unheady as a pint of bitter. The Nazi, who gets killed in spite of his telescope sight and his fancy camouflage, is smart and dangerous, but loses his nerve. The butcherlike utilization of his corpse as a decoy clinches the picture's simple lesson: killing is no contest between good and evil, admits of no valuations except those of craft...