Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply of cigarets, candy, toothbrush and powder- 25 francs. Bought a cheap diary to keep her dates in -200 francs. Dinner with wine at the Hotel Scribe (Army-operated - therefore inexpensive) 115 francs...
Correspondent Elmer Lower arose in a 175-franc room in the Scribe Hotel, breakfasted for 20 francs, spent the morning running to & fro in Paris with Dave Scherman taking pictures for TIME & LIFE. Velo taxis- 1000 francs. He lunched for 20 francs at the Scribe (no wine), spent 2 francs getting to the office on the metro, took a member of France...
Correspondent Mary Welsh was laid up with grippe, spent only the following: breakfast of bread and hot water to mix with Nescafe - 70 francs plus 100 francs tip to waiter who was not supposed to bring anything to rooms. Lunch without wine -350 francs. Dinner with half-bottle of wine -500 francs. Firewood for room in the evening-150 francs plus 100 francs tip (no tip, no wood). Telephone calls, newspapers, aspirin and tips to maid who smoothed bed and boy who brought paper handkerchiefs - 350 francs. Total for the day -1620 francs...
...Hopkins received U.S. correspondents in the fabulous magnificence of Ambassador Kirk's apartment in the Palazzo Barberini. Hunched down in a big chair beneath a picture of a Barberini pope, Harry Hopkins munched canapes, sipped wine, said that the Roosevelt Administration now realizes it must take a hand in Europe and its problems...
Only now is the pinch of war and blockade being felt. Rice rations are bolstered by an increasing supply of potatoes. Well-to-do Japanese have used up their stocks of captured Scotch whiskey. They are falling back on sake, the native rice wine. (Last week sake production was cut 75%, to conserve rice...