Word: bourbonized
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...ingredient will still be missing in the WPB cocktail: bourbon. By far the most popular U.S. whiskey (70% of all sold in prewar years), bourbon is scarce now, will be still scarcer because it is made from corn, now in the shortest supply of all U.S. grains. WPB-and the War Food Administration-banned the use of corn for distilling during the holiday. But they assured distillers of an adequate supply of wheat and rye. Distillers expect to turn out about 25,000,000 gallons of 190-proof neutral spirits and whiskey, enough, with blending, to add a four-month...
...Texas types, with a slightly fatherly air toward young airmen. Barney is a shade more demonstrative, Benny a shade more reserved. They like the same recreations-bridge, poker, hunting-and enjoy a companionable highball, although they have shocked their Texas friends by developing a mutual preference for Scotch over bourbon...
Soon Alberoni was thick as thieves with Spain's uxorious Bourbon King Philip V, "who could not do without a woman in his bed, but who would allow into it no woman that was not his wife." This royal singularity Alberoni met with prelatical resourcefulness by promoting the charms of Princess Elisabeth Farnese of Parma as "a good Lombard girl . . . stuffed with butter and Parmesan cheese." Philip mar ried...
...last until Christmas . . . and probably not long after Christmas either." Also missing from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through ten freezing hours for a chance to carry away a bottle...
...York's American Distilling Co., now busy with "buna and bombs," this week announced it would sell all of its 245,000 bbl. of bourbon and rye to its stockholders at cost (around $30 a bbl.). Two days before, OPA had hit American with a $7,500,000 ceiling violation suit...