Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ingredient will still be missing in the WPB cocktail: bourbon. By far the most popular U.S. whiskey (70% of all sold in prewar years), bourbon is scarce now, will be still scarcer because it is made from corn, now in the shortest supply of all U.S. grains. WPB-and the War Food Administration-banned the use of corn for distilling during the holiday. But they assured distillers of an adequate supply of wheat and rye. Distillers expect to turn out about 25,000,000 gallons of 190-proof neutral spirits and whiskey, enough, with blending, to add a four-month...
...paneled Manhattan office. To keep in shape he exercises in the morning with company underlings in his private office gym, talks over business while being rubbed down. On weekends he fills his home at Mamaroneck, N.Y. with people, treats his guests to movies in his private theater. The shortest private Skouras show on record: two full-length features and eight shorts...
...combat soldier as bread and bullets." And I can't help feeling you will be proud to learn that TIME has been the leader in every single venture undertaken by any American magazine to get accurate, impartial news from home to our troops overseas in the shortest possible time. So this week I thought you might like to see the complete record...
...Negro has made the greatest progress in the shortest time of any race in history. So said the University of North Carolina's famed liberal President Frank P. Graham last week, addressing students of all-Negro Tuskegee Institute on Founder's Day. His documentation...
North toward the Orient, on the shortest possible line from Chicago to Vladivostok, U.S. warplanes roar over one of the most important air routes in the world: the northwest passage across Canada to Alaska and beyond. In Parliament last week Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that air-minded Canada would pay the whole shot ($58,500,000) for her sector of this line...