Word: whiskeys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Colorado Springs, Harry Galbraith of the Colorado Historical Society settled an old controversy over the proper way to make a pioneer drink variously known as "pizen," "popskull" and "panther milk." The recipe: "To a five-gallon keg of Taos Lightning [whiskey] add a one-pound plug of chopped chewing tobacco, two pounds of burnt dried peaches and 20 charges of gunpowder; stir the mixture well and drink...
...Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
Public Service. In Payette Lakes, Idaho, the weekly Star enlarged its page size, explained: "We have been getting complaints that our paper was too small to wrap a bottle of whiskey...
...Antonio Bermudez, the hard-hitting whiskey maker who bosses Pemex, the solution was plain: he had to bring U.S. oilmen, and their know-how and capital, back into Mexico-if he could find anyone willing to come in under the restrictive law. In Mexico City recently he met suave J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N.Y., a veteran dealer in oil royalties. Jones talked so persuasively about oil that Bermudez decided that he was the man. Last week Bermudez announced the first U.S.-Mexican oil contract since the expropriation...
...When the war cut off traditional European customers, they found that they could do business with each other. Latin America had vegetable oils, coffee, bananas, cotton, sugar and many another tropical product that Canada wanted. The Dominion, in return, needed markets for newsprint, machinery', wheat and whiskey...