Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar off the market annually. Hoarding is the chief cause of the sugar shortage. But industrial hoarders, not housewives, are the culprits...
...match shortage had become so acute that a girl could safely beg one from a strange man without being considered fresh. People were trying to keep clean on four 3-oz. bars of soap a month. Whiskey sold for $7 a bottle, and gin (except a bathtub variety) became almost unobtainable. Women stood in long queues to buy the Government's last stocks of canned goods...
...special interest to the beer-drinking Harvard population is the Union's assertion that two steine of beer have the same effect as a glass of whiskey, and that a person can easily get drunk on beer. A beer-drunk, according to Mrs. Putnam, is the most bestial, low type there...
...West Highland-in appearance a snow-white cousin of the popular Scottie-is a comparative stranger to most U.S. dog fans, though familiar to viewers of Black & White whiskey ads. There are only 120 registered with the American Kennel Club. Wolvey, a four-year-old bitch owned by Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has dominated her breed in 60 shows since coming to the U.S. three years...
...minutes the volunteer has parted with about a pint of blood. Afterwards he rests, gets a pint of fluid-milk, fruit juice, coffee or tea. Also obtainable but optional is a shot of whiskey. Some donors want to give more than once. The Red Cross will accept five bloodlettings a year from any one donor, at intervals of eight weeks or longer...