Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mule-drawn wagon. They sat on the courthouse lawn, opening their picnic baskets of fried chicken and cherry pie, gaping at the broadcasting equipment, listening to the seven bands parading in courthouse square and shrewdly eyeing the big-city reporters. (The newsmen lounged in a vacant building where whiskey was free...
High Tea. In Detroit, Charles Willoughby and Jasper Manier got 90 days in jail for selling to Mrs. William Young, for $10, two whiskey bottles full of cold...
Manna. In Oklahoma City, police spent a day counting a haul of seized whiskey, broke 158 pints, which leaked through the floor to eager collectors in the jail below...
Pete Helen, and Evan Carison, the Alaskan kids, have found something to their liking in "the Cave." Peter calls it the homey atmosphere but Evan likes the whiskey and waters Spanish John serves for his friends there...
Golden Opportunity. The report also held that the distillers showed "monopolistic tendencies"; that the industry is virtually controlled by the Big Four-Schenley Distillers Corp., Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, National Distillers Products Corp., and Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts. In 1939, the Big Four had 49% of the U.S. whiskey supply in their warehouses; today they have 70%. They got this enormous increase by adding some 127,066,629 proof gallons to their stocks through the purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price...