Word: spigots
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...with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...
From the islands of Palau the Japanese had launched their first air attacks on the Philippines. From Palau they had staged their advance into New Guinea. It was Palau that they called the "spigot" of their oil supply-i.e., The Netherlands East Indies. And Palau was one of Japan's finest naval bases...
...never monotonous. When he dresses a man down, there is no profanity, no shouting, not even the chill look of traditional military anger. But his ire burns like hell. These personal explosions of his are rarely and consciously utilized tools: he can turn them on & off like a spigot...
...Florey believes some surgical operations might be revised to take advantage of penicillin, tried it in 22 cases of mastoid. Immediately after operation, the incision was stitched up with a small rubber tube running to the bottom of the wound and closed by a spigot. Every six hours the tube was drained and filled with a penicillin solution. After a week the tube was removed. Nineteen of the cases were healed and only three needed any further treatment...
...Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife gets water from the kitchen faucet. And the spigot will pour forth 300,000 barrels a day (more than one-fifth of the need of the Eastern area...