Strong Drink
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WHIM-WHAM
{The American Distilling Company has announced that its entire stock of 245,000 barrels of whisky, equalling 45,000,000 bottles, will be sold to shareholders on a pro rata basis, at cost. An official said that the present demands were so great the company was making more enemies than friends, so the directors had decided to allot the whisky to shareholders and retire from the whisky business.-Cable news item from New York.] CH Whisky is the Life of ManSo runs the old Sea ShantyYet Men,have managed to survive When Whisky Stocks are scanty. Not even now the Measured Nip, Strict Thimbleful of Pleasure: Drinkers and Vats alike are dry, There’s Little left to measure. 7 "HERE’S Little in the Cellars now, For modest Thirst or Swilling; That Little soon will vanish, if Distillers cease distilling. Where once ran Rivers of the Stuff That heals or cheers or fuddles, A Trickle goes-great Seas of Grog Have dried, and left us Puddles. CF Some may find it grievous Loss And bitter Deprivation, f And others, down on Drink declare That it has saved the Nation: But I am quite content to find Whichever Case has Merit That we are far from spiritless Although so short of Spirit. f
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 231, 26 November 1943, Page 2
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208Strong Drink New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 231, 26 November 1943, Page 2
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