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Alaska, one of the drinkingest spots in the world (per capita average: 3 gal. of hard liquor a year, compared to 1½ gal. in the U.S.), is drying up. It is all the fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with...
When the smoke cleared, ten or more U.S. fighter craft and several cargo planes had been destroyed on the ground. The Japs had attacked on schedule as the rain-laden monsoon blew itself out. Next day United Nations planes struck back, raiding Jap bases in Burma...
Most military men are given to understatement, but not many have written as modestly as this. The author of the terse sentence was Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, Commander of the Marines in the Solomons, and he certainly had been busy. At 55, he had been climbing up & down cargo nets like a 25-year-old. He had lowered his high rank into damp foxholes. He had eaten captured Jap rice for want of anything better. Like his men, he had slapped anopheles mosquitoes, swum naked in the Lunga River...
Dreams in Issari were made of flour. Small Greek boys dreamed of bread loaves piled high on the bare kitchen table. News had come from Peiraeus that a cargo from the U.S. had arrived on a Swedish ship. During the day the people who slumped exhausted in the square whispered of the day the food might reach Issari. There was speculation and argument: This or that might delay the food; what if this or that road were used? perhaps it would not come...
Finally, a lot more headaches and $250,000 later, the La Paz bobbed up again-and stayed afloat. Much of her juicy cargo turned out to be intact, including $50,000 worth of Johnnie Walker Black Label