Word: whiskeys
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...Bill Laurence of the New York Times, heading home after reporting the atomic bombing in Japan, found our August 20 issue with its atomic bomb section selling in the Central Pacific for the fabulous price of one bottle of whiskey...
...laughter of yeh chi ("wild chickens") rang through every thick-carpeted hotel corridor. The steaks were thick and plentiful. Real Scotch (not Australian) whiskey flowed. Hotel beds had spring mattresses and clean white sheets. By changing U.S. dollars to Chungking dollars to Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously inflated prices unreasonably became reasonable (steaks 50?, silk nightgowns $3). For 15 incredible days the celebration throbbed-firecrackers and kisses, music and laughter. British and U.S. soldiers were surrounded by "saltwater plums" (sailors' girls) from Szechwan Road, and by delicate Eurasian women, warm Russians, big-eyed Hungarians...
...Slowest way to get drunk: highballs while standing at a bar. Quickest: straight whiskey or cocktails lying down...
Spirits. Gin, rum, brandy, blended whiskey plentiful right away. Straight bourbon and Scotch 18 months to two years away...
...studied French tactics, acquired a taste for French cooking and a French mistress (rumor said she bore him four children and kept him abroad until His Majesty's Government threatened to cut off his funds). Back in Tokyo, he lived fast. He gambled-not for money but for whiskey (i.e., he paid off by taking two drinks every time he lost). He patronized geisha houses. He liked to drive at top speed in his maroon Lincoln...