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...bicycles, when obtainable, cost $400. A 1941 Ford sedan sells for $5,000. Nor are the prices in the restaurants and honky-tonk nightclubs any lower: $5 for a small drink of U.S. whiskey...
...subjects to become money mad), make and administer their own laws, order executions (by drowning at sea), give each native who marries a house as wedding present. Each king has provided a bronze bust of himself for the royal gallery, each has maintained an unfailing cellar of matured Scotch whiskey in the royal "palace" (a sprawling teak-and-tile mansion...
Racing & Death. Churchill Downs reopened, getting ready for the Derby-a real one this time, with horses instead of turtles (TIME, May 14). Whiskey production would soon be resumed for one month. Anti-Nazi movies became a drug on the market. Yet daily, and for some weeks to come, the European casualty lists and the red-starred telegrams would still arrive...
...growing mob of civilians, stampeded the Government liquor stores, which had been shut tight as a V-E-day precaution. They smashed windows, passed out cases of liquor, wines, beer. Expropriated liquor sold for $1 a bottle or was simply given away. Said a policeman: "They were drinking whiskey by the case." They kept drinking, with occasional pauses for pillage, all night...
...think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep"), and the genial host, Jack Barrett, full of his customers' reminiscences : one, asked if he never broke his marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke 'em, but I've sure give 'em a hell...