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Food Minister John Strachey's allocation last week of 50,000 tons of barley had started up Scotch distilleries (dormant since last summer), averted a contemplated slash in the export of Scotch whiskey, which nets Britain many (in 1945-$16,000,000) of her eagerly sought U.S. dollars...
Heckled Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: "With regard to the dollar export . . . is it not the case that the price of a bottle of whiskey exported to America today in dollars is five shillings [$1] . . . and that there it is about five times that much...
...drunk skit. Jack McVea, leader of a small West Coast Negro jazz band, had heard the skit years ago-and the phrase stuck. Last summer on a rainy day in Portland, Ore. he wrote a simple riff tune for it and later recorded it-leaving out the references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason, an old-time Harlem comic who had written the Richard...
...come a-walkin in out of nowhar in the dark, with his mouth mortised into his face in a shape like a mule's hoof, heels down. . . . Like all Hardshells, he was dead agin women and lovely sounds and motions and dancin and cussin and kissin. [But] the whiskey part of the frolic he had nothin agin...
...spasms of the diaphragm resulting from irritation of the phrenic nerves. Causes: swallowing something hot, or any one of a wide variety of diseases. In minor cases, holding the breath, breathing in a paper bag (to get carbon dioxide), sneezing, salt and lemon juice or a teaspoon of whiskey may be effective...