Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having far too many plane crashes in which drink is a factor," observed D. Leigh Colvin,* the Prohibition Party's 1936 presidential candidate, who is convinced (in spite of contradictory WMC figures) that seven out of ten cases of war-plant absenteeism are caused by "bouts with the rum...
...this brought an indignant denial from Lord McGowan, a deep British rum ble about "iniquitous charges." From Du Font's President Carpenter came a statement which was wide-eyed with surprise: "The Du Pont Company has for years had an agreement with Imperial Chemical Industries ... to acquire patent licenses. . . . The existence of the agreements has never been concealed. . . . Copies have been in the possession of government agencies for approximately ten years. They have been before several committees of Congress. . . . The action of the Department of Justice at this particular time in our war effort is difficult to understand...
...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 gin or rum...
...sales of liquor at prices above ceilings; 2) pressure-sales of wine, sherry, raw Cuban gin or Puerto Rican rum before any whiskey conies out from under the counter. In Los Angeles retailers frantically tried to switch their customers.from bour bon to tequila, which was flooding across the border because it sells for $1 a fifth in Mexico...
...Casual customers who plan weekend parties will be happy to take your slow-movers off your hands. It's a good idea to sell no popular brands on the weekends. As a matter of fact, customers who ask for whiskey on weekends can very readily be switched to rum or wine...