"INFLUENZA" WHISKEY.
—:' >.. ..;• ■ ! : - In proposing .the' health of. the American' dry goods merchants who are >■ touring Britain,-at a dinner:, at Kilmar-/ \ nock, -Ayrshire,. Sir Alexander Walker, ," of Messrs John talker and Sons, Ltd., ,' 'the distillers, said' on the adoption of Prohibition in America his firm, which. had built up a very good business con- . nexion in the was told to '"walk away (says the Loudon "I>aily Mail" of June 13th). They did so with considerable chagrin, but a few months later : they wore cauVd Upon to supply a -large amount of whisky to the States, and to label it "For medicinal puri poses;'.' '.- ~.,- . . _i- ! Further orders to that effect came ' pouring in, with the result that very < soon they were exporting more whiskj to the United States than they had ever , done before. V _ -, I On aslang tlheir American agent the ! reason fdr this -extraordinary demand, he got the rejply that influenssa had ■•: raged in theXinited iStates with great rigour ever since Prohibition came into operation. The severity of the epidemic and its; persistent recurrence were such that he was afraid the wjhole American nation must be on the point of physical i collapse., (Laughter.)
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17222, 12 August 1921, Page 10
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