Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro soldiers in a small café were celebrating with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor the bullet ricocheted into the soldier's leg. M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic...
Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...young friend is a sergeant pilot-making $144 a month. He can afford the bootleg liquor. So he's not learning to drink beer or good whiskey on his nights off-but to drink rotgut straight. As he told me this morning, amid groans, "the stuff tastes so terrible, the only thing you can do is to get drunk as quick as possible so you can't taste...
...better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes who like to hide in whiskey bottles, ride brooms and play other engaging cinetricks...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...