Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rations are the same as those of other war prisoners, and he likes them cooked as plainly as possible. He insists that an officer share his dishes to prove they are not poisoned. Water is all he drinks. "Wine or beer or whiskey clouds the judgment. My job was to estimate public opinion for the Führer. You need judgment for that." He does not smoke. "Tobacco ruins the palate and prevents you from smelling the countryside." When a guard seems dubious about complying with a demand, Hess shouts: "That is what I wish. Those are my orders...
Within eight months 150,000 people of Cork and nearby areas had taken the pledge. Soon Father Mathew was drying up Irishmen by the thousand. Within six years Ireland's annual consumption of whiskey fell from twelve and a quarter million to five and a half million gallons...
...P.M.W. was organized out of a bitter revolt against Lewis' high-handed methods, waged organizing battles with U.M.W. plug-uglies in which more than a score were killed. They erected a $250,000 monument to a tubthumping, whiskey-loving woman organizer, "Mother Jones" from Pennsylvania, whose most celebrated saying was, "Let not that traitor John Lewis ever breathe the air above my grave." "Mother Jones" turned up for all of P.M.W.'s toughest campaigns. Annually a giant memorial is held at her grave in Mt. Olive...
...Increased the list of nondeferrable occupations (newsboys, doormen, whiskey makers, etc.) to shoo such workers into war plants...
...main street has several liquor stores, but supplies are running low and prices are noncompetitive. The town's commonest brand of blended whiskey is something called "Tom Burns," resembling the $1.49-a-quart variety of peacetime. On one side of the street it sells for $6.50 a quart, on the other side for $5. In Alaska the customer does not ask a price; he pays it. If he did ask, he would be told: "Nobody asked you to buy it." An Army officer sold his badly whipped, broken-framed 1936 Oldsmobile to an old sourdough...