Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor shortage were confirmed by a survey of provision stores throughout the Square. There is an acute gin shortage at present, and probably there will be no gin this summer, for the manufacture of smokeless gun powder is taking most of the alcohol produced for this brew. Although no rum shortage exists at present, it is expected soon...
...birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...
...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
Most absolute veto handed out was on musical-request programs. No telephoned or telegraphed requests are to be accepted. Requests received by mail are to be held "for an unspecified length of time." The censor remembered, perhaps, that during Prohibition bootleggers were supposed to have sent messages to Rum Row by getting "platter turners" on all-night stations to play their prearranged tunes...
...Elizalde family was probably the richest in Manila. In terms of the potential wealth of its strategic investments, it was far richer than that would suggest. Last week there was no news of the Elizaldes' inter-island shipping fleet, gin and rum distilleries, three sugar mills, lumber company, insurance companies, paint and floor-wax factory, huge rope factory, cattle ranch, iron mines, gold mines...