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...imminent liquor shortage were confirmed by a survey of provision stores throughout the Square. There is an acute gin shortage at present, and probably there will be no gin this summer, for the manufacture of smokeless gun powder is taking most of the alcohol produced for this brew. Although no rum shortage exists at present, it is expected soon...
...from $25 to $300 a thimbleful. Since cancer is not caused by bacteria but is an anarchy of the body's own cells, a cancer antitoxin is a contradiction in terms. Last week the Koch Bros, were arrested for violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Their brew was found watery. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Ray: "Chemical analysis shows that the dilution [of Glyoxylide] is so infinitesimal that it would be like dumping a cocktail in the Detroit River and expecting to get a kick out of the water going over Niagara Falls...
...Home-brew has a reputation for turning flat, and the acceleration scheme cooked up by the Harvard Military Science Department is no exception. The program envisioned for ROTC men is more inflexible than necessary. It requires that every student in Mil Sci I and II, without exception, attend twelve weeks of Summer School and take half of Mil Sci II or III, respectively. This schedule is not a University or a War Department policy; it is the brain child solely of the Mil Sci Department. Washington has directed each local unit to arrange its program to fit the war-time...
...United Nations, it would not, by itself, have provoked the violent political storm which began raging in Britain at week's end. The escape of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, however, was an altogether different cup of tea. Hitler could not have concocted a bitterer brew. Any reverse at sea makes an Englishman gulp. But the violation of the English Channel by a mediocre Nazi fleet made the British definitely...
...Hawaiian undergraduate is reputed to have limited his alcoholic refreshment exclusively to a unique native brew whose inspiring taste and disastrous after-effects he attributed to the dead, green snake which was allowed to "mildew" inside each bottle of the unusual fluid...