Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration began to unwind the rationing program. Gin was already flowing out of distilleries in place of war alcohol; whiskey was back on the dealers' shelves, in plain sight of the voters. And then Sept. 17 was set as the day when all processed foods except canned fruits and a few other items will be unrationed...
...pocket. But as the tumult and the shouting died, the old civilian mistrust of the soldier revived. Jobs were easy to find, but veterans often discovered that an ,army record was something to conceal rather than to display. "The veteran," wrote one newspaper, "has encouraged tales of his whiskey-drinking abilities, [recklessness] and foraging [until] citizens believe that the army has acted as a school of demoralization...
Scottish distilleries have made no whiskey since war began, but in Britain, the Empire, North & South America the thirst for Scotch has grown bigger & bigger...
...year Scotch-whiskey reserves will have reached a really serious danger level...
Last week the British Government came to the rescue. Food Minister Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin announced that whiskey making would soon begin again-but for export only. Thirsty Britons gulped...