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There was some discusstion about Martinican Rum a while back, about how it wasn't actually agricole back in those days (distilled from sugar cane juice), but was a different thing entirely, more similar to pot-stilled Jamaican rum. This entry from the 1939 edition seems not to contradict this, I guess.
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The Consumers Union Reports On Wines & Liquors include many insights on state of booze just prior to WWII.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4352557&view=1up&seq=1
For example, their comments in the 1939 edition regarding Old Overholt Bonded Rye.
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Yet another great find on Gallica, fifteen years of La Journée Vinicole (Montpellier) (1927 - 1941), digitized and searchable, with OCR text for ease of translation.
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Another great find on Gallica, digitized issues of "Revue des vins et liqueurs et des produits alimentaires pour l'exportation" (1877 -1935), a French monthly, available online for free.
This journal of the wine, spirits & gourmet trades included bilingual content, in French & English. The 1913 issue was the first issue where they list Bitter Campari. By that time, they were trilingual, with Spanish translations of some articles as well.
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A section of the catalog of the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, listing every significant distiller of liqueurs, vermouths and absinthe in France at the time.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k12700863/f134.item
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