[backhoe]

Dave, for some weird reason I recall that the whiskey ration for workers on the Panama Canal was a quart (!) a day... people in our time forget that in the old days cooling was either rare or nonexistent, and keeping fluids fresh & safe to drink was a real problem- one you could solve with alcoholic beverages. Not sure I'd want to be around a gunner or demolitions man who drank that much hard liquor, however...

[Grampa Dave]

The old navies had to have their grog and rum rations to prevent mutiny!