Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crusader Smith found with horror that the 132,000,000 men, women & children in the U.S. drink per person per week an average of one quart and two gills of alcoholic beverages...
...three months, Hawaii thirsted under absolute prohibition. Parched citizens concocted sickening "swipes" of yeast and fruit juice. Last week the order was relaxed. Adult topers may buy one quart of liquor a week. Bars sell all they like-until they close at 5 p.m. But drunkenness is sternly forbidden. Penalty: a fine up to $500, five years in jail; or both. Bartenders are also punished for getting their customers drunk. On Hawaii's first day of repeal, 17 men, five women were convicted of drunkenness. They were fined up to the limit, sentenced to jail for as long...
Lost. In Freeport, L.I., a thief entered a dentist's waiting room, made off with two smoking stands, left a quart of sauerkraut in exchange. In Manhattan, police arrested a clothing-store burglar wrapped up in his loot. The loot: five women's dresses, four playsuits, 137 pairs of socks, 70 pairs of stockings, 39 pairs of anklets...
...risen 2,000% since the beginning of the war. (In U.S. terms, a package of cigarets would cost $3, a man's shirt $50, a pair of medium-priced woman's shoes $160. One might, with luck, buy a bottle of Scotch for $60, but a quart of champagne would cost over...
...years the doctors have told me that it was essential that I should consume at least a quart of milk daily, while my brain has informed me that it was of primary importance for me to have coffee to prevent me from falling asleep in the midst of the ever important intellectual conversations which flourish at the end of all House meals. Now I am forced to dispense with at least one of these, and I find it impossible to determine which. The result is that for days I have had nothing to drink; I am completely asleep...