[Peter W. Kessler]

Alcohol may have been the lubricant in the machines that, after WWII, built the greatest consumer economy in history, invented the transistor, cured polio, put Americans in space, and sent men to the moon.

In the spirit of those days, I’ll have another!

[Savage Beast]

Maybe, but I think it more likely that the impetus of ascendancy, that won the war, built the greatest consumer economy in history, invented the transistor, cured polio, put Americans in space, sent men to the moon, and lifted Americans into a saner approach to alcohol (and tobacco).

I'll join you in the toast, but one's enough.

BTW, there's an Alice Faye movie, from the late '30s I think, when women and to some extent men decided that smoking cigarettes represented liberation and went overboard rejection the proscriptions of the past. In one of the song-and-dance numbers, the babes puffed away as they kicked and trilled.