Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve-day round of caviar and vodka, of toasts and talks, came to an end. From Moscow shrewd little Dr. Eduard Benes rode a special Soviet train to his liberated homeland...
...American delegation soon learned that it was not necessary to down a full slug of vodka for each toast at the formal dinners. Sometimes the toast could be drunk in a weak wine, sometimes it was only necessary to touch the glass to the lips. But when there was a "big toast"-to a nation or a chief of state-the glasses had to be drained. Vodka and wine were served at all meals, even breakfast. To make sure there would be enough, the Russians brought 14,000 bottles to Yalta...
When he sits down over a drink with Winston Churchill (scotch & soda) and Joseph Stalin (vodka), Franklin Roosevelt (old fashioned) will have at least two strong cards up his sleeve. One of them was put there by Senator Arthur Vandenberg's strong speech on U.S. participation in world politics (TIME, Jan. 22). The other was provided last week by the new members of the Senate...
...French. Later, at the French Embassy, he met French soldiers, including men of the famed Normandy Air Squadron, who are serving on the Eastern Front with the Red Army. Then he hurried off to a gala luncheon where he and Marshal Stalin exchanged toasts in champagne and vodka...
...news promptly brought out supplies of whiskey which had been hoarded in stores across the nation. And many a retailer whose shelves are loaded 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...