Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets or bicycles-all slated in pre-budget forecasts to take a rap. Instead, Sir John announced new taxes which put ordinary British cig-arets up in price from 20? per pack to 25?; matches from 11½? to 2? per box; beer from 9? to 10? per pint; whiskey from $2.50 to $2.80 a bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these measures...
Said the Pink Reporter recently, "The Ayers tribe are skunky eggs. For instance, Ben Moulton, now a member of the grafting state liquor crooks ... by the grace of a drunken so-called governor, [State Senator] Dale Woods . . . and one L. M. A. Wass . . . are all former chums of Whiskey Ayers, and all just as corrupt, including [State Senator] H. H. 'Haywire' Haight...
...prohibition brought violent riots, caused not by eleventh-hour drinkers but by bone-dry natives furious that property taxes had been increased to compensate for lost liquor taxes. Soon smuggling became a problem. Hotels shorn of their licenses lost money. For Europeans club life without chotapegs (half-sized whiskey-sodas) was as dull as billiards without cues. At Government House parties and receptions, guests beefed because His Excellency, Governor Sir Lawrence Roger Lumley, said he sympathized with prohibition, and would not serve even shandygaff (half beer, half ginger ale) to the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow himself...
...Hurok bagged Dancer Anna Pavlova, who called him "Hurokchik." In the next four years her tours, on which he often accompanied her. netted the two of them $500,000. Two other Hurok dancers were the late Isadora Duncan, who fortified herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir...
...jute, tin, rubber, fur and whiskey buyers, the new rules made little difference. But for other goods, the de clining free pound was the same sort of mixed blessing as would be a reduction in U. S. tariffs. British custom tailors with clients in New York began calling attention to the availability of fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin...