Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Privation in the Northwest. In Oregon, liquor rationing reduced every citizen's weekly consumption to a pint of gin, two quarts of whiskey and one and one-fifth gallons of rum or brandy...
...psychology of people, known or even unknown to him, just as he liked best to read diaries and memoirs, infinitely more than fiction or history." He had "the Slav love for long, intimate talk." They used to sit by the fire "until 2 or 3 in the morning, sipping whiskey, which he always took with plain water, advising me never to take soda, as it hardens arteries...
Homer, at 14, runs into little which might obstruct his capacity for love. At the telegraph office where he works, the manager is incapable of disliking anything, and the operator, Grogan, soaks away in whiskey the sadness of the messages he gives & takes. Homer's history teacher talks to him with a democratic wisdom and kindness which, if it were true of teaching in general, would long ago have left nations incapable of war. On the job, to be sure, Homer has to carry messages of death in war to mothers in the town, and in these more complicated...
...said he had seen Negro workers "chip in for a pint of whiskey which they got in the next town. They take it back with them and lie dead drunk between the rows of beans and tomatoes...
...wine supply, left the import divisions of most U.S. distillers with a crack sales and distributing setup but nothing to do. So the distillers began switching to domestic wines, bought wineries outright because it was far cheaper than starting from scratch. Then last August WPB stopped all whiskey production, ordered the distillers to convert to war alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking so fast and hoarding so much. If the war lasts that long it would mean...