Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, things are not as bad as they may sound. There are still large stocks of gin, rum, brandy, and wine on hand, and people's tastes are slowly but surely coming around to these. It is expected that after a little while people will be so used to drinking the wartime beverages that there will be little demand for whiskey...
...cognac, gin, rum and Scotch for a North Ireland officers' club, with no offsetting credit for resale of the liquor; other charges running into the millions for refundable items or for goods on which the price was later reduced...
Three times in the last four years Hollywood's popular Painter John Decker has turned from screwball to serious art. Artist Decker's latest and most successful turning took place last fortnight over rum cocktails in Beverly Hills' Little Gallery. Said Los Angeles Museum Director Roland McKinney: "I would say [Decker] has become one of the significant contemporary American painters...
...there is an exception worth taking, it is to Warner Bros.' continued public rum-bleseating with the President of the United States. It is still any gossip's guess whether the engagement is official or whether they just like each other very, very much. But when, in two pictures so close together as Mission to Moscow (TIME, May 10) and This Is the Army, the President is referred to with such breath-catching reverence, it seems only decent that the audience should dim the lights, steal out softly, and leave them alone together...
...Marseillaise, cheered the new High Commissioner sent by the French Committee of Liberation, Henri-Etienne Hoppenot, and cursed the departing ruler, Vichyite Admiral Georges Robert. Offshore U.S. freighters, the first in eight months, waited to unload food for the hungry islanders, fuel for autos running on 8% gasoline, 92% rum...