Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japs put candy and whiskey in the center of the St. Paul's College dining hall where 800 people were imprisoned. The crowd jammed around the strange offering. Then explosives, fixed in the ceiling, were set off. Hundreds were killed...
From the moment she got off the train in California more than 30 years ago, Lucy Hicks liked Oxnard, and Oxnard liked Lucy. The town was newly rich on sugar beets, and its Chinese and Mexican laborers blew their pay nightly on light ladies, gambling, whiskey and opium. Lucy, a skinny, 6-ft. Kentucky Negro, decided to stay, set out to get a good reputation as a preliminary to getting a bad one. She began cooking for Oxnard's leading families. By the time she opened her first house of prostitution, off Oxnard's crib-bordered China Alley...
...sailors, ex-servicemen and their girls crowded the bar to drink and damn the Bartenders' Union. A commander from the aircraft carrier Enterprise hurried to Danny's to announce that the picketing was a "damned shame." But Danny still had his troubles. Union drivers refused to deliver whiskey, and at times Danny seemed to be sweating slightly as drinkers cried, glass in hand: "You can't give in, Danny!" It was obvious that he couldn't-his clientele had gotten bigger and tougher than the union...
...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...
...Bill Laurence of the New York Times, heading home after reporting the atomic bombing in Japan, found our August 20 issue with its atomic bomb section selling in the Central Pacific for the fabulous price of one bottle of whiskey...