Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rum. Baranov made money for his company from the start. Hundreds of canoes, manned by Aleutian islanders, scoured the shores for sea otter, seals and foxes. At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth...
...before the District of Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
Seventy-two-year-old Captain Edward Page Gaston of the New York National Guard, founder of the rum-hating New Vigilantes, strong advocate of the repatriation of the body of Pocahontas, onetime believer that "Fascism is what this country needs," noted that Hitler has avoided bombing British breweries. Said he: "[Hitler] knows that liquor is his best ally...
Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole...