Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British patience was strained. The London Daily Express called the civilian and military defenders of Malaya "a pack of whiskey-swilling planters and military birds of passage." The only answer: The Aussies had not yet begun to fight...
...night an enterprising few U.S. soldiers worked hard at an odd project: they went diving, trying to salvage the cargo of a capsized barge rumored to have had whiskey aboard. No one tried to stop them. Douglas MacArthur knew that his men were good men as long as they could relax in their off hours, as long as they wisecracked about bombs and the hand of death above them...
...drinkers need not worry yet. U.S. distillers have over 500,000,000 gal. of whiskey in warehouses, four years' supply. Furthermore, though forbidden to make neutral spirits for gin and "blends," distillers can still make 100,000,000 gal. of straight whiskey in 1942, about three-quarters of total 1941 output...
...more imminent threat to U.S. drinkers was the Office of Production Management, which pondered an order requiring distilleries to switch to industrial alcohol needed for munitions and plastics (see p. 61). Hopeful note for tipplers: even if all whiskey production were stopped immediately, stocks now aging in warehouses would last four years...
...Plain Dealer into a roaring copperhead sheet. The small remains were expensively pieced together by red-bearded William Wirt Armstrong, who supported Andrew Johnson, fought the 14th and 15th Amendments, opposed woman suffrage on the grounds that it would turn them into "political swagerees, with a love of wine, whiskey and lager beer...