Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed free rice, beans, griots (fried pork), and heady island rum. Nearby cinemas and bars offered free movies and more free drinks. From time to time loudspeakers broadcast polite speeches by politicians suggesting that the picnickers might vote for Colonel Paul Magloire for President...
...prevailing atmosphere of rum, lights and music, such protests went all but unnoticed. This week, as the voters prepared to go to the polls, there was no doubt that the open-handed Strong Man would be Haiti's next President...
Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...
...peso is worth around six cents. Though the increases horrified local residents, dollar-bearing tourists still found it possible to regard beef at 25 cents a pound and rum at $1 a bottle with equanimity...
...Korea had found the U.S. with its whisky barrels full. Whisky warehouses bulged with 637 million gallons, enough to supply normal demand for almost eight years. Gin, brandy and rum were in equally plentiful supply...