Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supply. Gin stocks are always low because little aging is required. Rum and Scotch are imported. Consequently the U.S. liquor industry's 100% conversion to war last fall threw hard-liquor bibbers back on domestic whiskey. Since many citizens regard liquor as an unnecessary evil, the Federal Government has never seriously considered rationing it. Result: the distilling industry has been forced to do its own: distributors are now getting about 70% of what they took in 1942. Meanwhile liquor consumption has increased along with payrolls...
...Four U.S. distillers (Hiram Walker, National Distillers, Schenley's, Seagram's) produced 64% of all domestic whiskeys, owned 20 of 97 operating distilleries. By last week the same four owned at least 20 more of the smaller distilleries, and Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...
...back to myself. Everybody knows that I havent sold any whiskey in 8 years and on turning the first page of the 1943 calendar me & my wife went into a huddle and I made myself some very salom promises. She don't take very much stock in these new year reselutions but I promased myself that I would quit lying and stealing and I have kept that promos. I also promased to quit drinking, while I reserve the right to take a social drink with a friend that promas too I have kept inviolate and I will farther promise...
When victory comes, Britons will have to celebrate with weak beer, women & song. Whiskey and gin are almost unobtainable by the bottle; even in bars the supply is very...
...they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant rubbish grew-steel helmets, pink brassieres, whiskey bottles, tins of powder, notebooks, overcoats, rich Mandalay silks...