Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polls, politicians had wasted five weeks of energetic oratory, such epithets as "fascist" and "crook," and some $350,000 in campaign funds. It was a hangup show. Political organizers swarmed in, hired private homes at $25 a throw to give vote-catching parties, plied the voters with imported Scotch, handed out $5 and $10 bills for displaying candidates' pictures...
...Navy has about 7,000 men here, the Army about 6,000. Air Force characters drift in & out. Those who want company pick up White Russian or Chinese girls. Restaurants and cafes have beer, Scotch and vodka, steaks, pastries and swell Chinese food. It all seems wonderful after the healthy but tasteless service chow...
...King's house, on lobster, filet mignon, asparagus salad, raspberries a la mode. At Earnscliffe, stately home of British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald, he talked with Canadian Socialist Leader M. J. Coldwell. If they did more than exchange niceties, they kept it to themselves. At night there were Scotch highballs and more food-oysters, roast turkey, baked Alaska-at a state dinner at the swank Country Club...
...Facts. The National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers released some dry statistics that helped explain the drought of Scotch whiskey. Imports of Scotch and other British spirits during the first half of the year totaled one million gallons v. a normal 1.9 million gallons. Outlook for the balance of the year: no improvement...
...First Secretary of the Chilean Embassy in Washington was giving a cocktail party. The talk was of Virginia hams and the weather. Suddenly a young reporter spilled his Scotch & water into a girl's lap. Wailed the girl: "What a mess!'' Said Host Fernando Ortuzar, who had been looking elsewhere: "Which mess, madam, London or Argentina...