Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verdant Jamaica is a richly productive Crown Colony in the British West Indies, but the bulk of its black inhabitants lives in poverty. The war has strangled its exports of rum and bananas, and the shipping shortage has brought the island's home economy to a new low. As 1943 began, transportation was almost at a standstill; some towns had been dark nine months because there was no oil for lamps; meat, bread, salt, rice, fish and matches were either rationed or unavailable. Economic ills weakened political or der. During a funeral procession the coffin of an unpopular public...
...Supply. Gin stocks are always low because little aging is required. Rum and Scotch are imported. Consequently the U.S. liquor industry's 100% conversion to war last fall threw hard-liquor bibbers back on domestic whiskey. Since many citizens regard liquor as an unnecessary evil, the Federal Government has never seriously considered rationing it. Result: the distilling industry has been forced to do its own: distributors are now getting about 70% of what they took in 1942. Meanwhile liquor consumption has increased along with payrolls...
Died. Luren Dudley Dickinson, 84, God-fearing Michigan Republican, seven times Lieutenant Governor, onetime Governor; of a heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing...
...official report of costs for the Commencement Day dinner included expenditures for such items as 33 gallons of rum (seasoning purposes, no doubt), the upkeep of 17 horses, one cord of wood, and the rental fee on sixteen bowls. This event, according to the manuscripts, was the first public commencement in six years...
...about 600. Short, baldish Father Braun, who went to Russia in 1934, lives in the old French Embassy with his police dog, has had a hard time getting food and fuel, "but his sources of cigarettes were holding up fairly well, and occasionally someone gave him a bottle of rum...