Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ramsey is the other star of the W & M outfit. In the ol' South they are saying in their best johnny-cake, corn whiskey accents, "Hahvuhd can have Peabody. We'll take Ramsey any day." The bad thing about it that "they" might be right, as good as Peabody was, for Ramsey blocks and tackles like fiend and was picked on every All-Southern team in the books last year...
...Spirit, The Flesh. In Topeka, Kans., Patrolmen David Hummer and William Miller searched a woman prisoner, found in her purse: a Bible, a pint of whiskey...
...There were some big naval guns exploding shells near by with a loud whoosh and bouncing my kite up and down. When we unloaded everything, my crew started tossing out whiskey bottles with sticks in their necks, screamers which sound hellishly like big bombs and make searchlight crews scramble for cover. On the way home we could still see the fires 150 miles away. I was glad that night I was one of the people above and not one below...
Although there is an adequate liquor supply for a medium term war (warehouses bulge with enough to last four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...
...smacking $14,814,000 after taxes. At the same time combined earnings of 290 bigtime U.S. industrials dropped 35%. Moreover, the liquor industry may get "vacations" from war work to rebuild depleted stocks. Otherwise it might be out of business after the war while it waited for new whiskey to age. Thus, if this war does not stir up another wave of prohibition, distillers can count themselves lucky...