Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandits entered the home of George H. Houston, ex-president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, announced a stickup, stayed an hour, toured the house, chatted pleasantly, finally bade Mrs. Houston and her baby grandchild good- bye, shook hands all around (first removing their gloves) and departed with several cases of whiskey, $75 and nine gas coupons...
...donated by the State of New Mexico) was excellent, and the skipper was popular Captain Russell Berkey, who gave humorous, fatherly lectures over the ship's loudspeaker system. Typical Berkey advice to his men after a long spell at sea: "Don't try to drink all the whiskey in Honolulu the first day . . . your stomach has forgotten what it's like...
...recreation island, Mogmog, was in a class by itself: as many as 15,000 sea-wobbly sailors, going ashore for the first time in weeks or months, could swim, play basketball there, curse the sand and everything else in the tropics, and drink (beer for enlisted men, blended whiskey for officers). There was thatched 100-ft. bar for junior officers, a 50-ft. bar for lieutenant commanders and up; a third, and better, lounge with chairs for admirals (as many as 20 at a time could be found there...
...round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
...their wild Irish hell-raising, one chronicler wrote: "Champagne corks popped among the section bosses, barrels of whiskey floated the spirits of the laborers higher than the howls of timber wolves in the forests. Lurching between the roaring shacks they showed off their tricks of close-in fighting, western-and highly personal-marksmanship; their excitingly various ways of love-making . . . violent . . . dangerous. Timber-cutters charged down from their mountain camps and raided the effete shovel heavers like Apaches. The shovel-heavers raided back and returned with blood on the ends of their picks...