Word: alcohol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Similar work is being carried on by the younger generation in Bulgaria and Lithuania. The methods include obtaining anti-alcohol pledges, spreading the doctrines of prohibition, and getting towns to vote to go dry. To date, 62 Bulgarian villages have voted against alcoholic beverages...
...bones that had once been horses, and an old hack, were his first professional property. He became Topeka's favorite hackman. Between calls he studied law, and gained admission to the bar at 21. At 24, he was elected county prosecutor and, when the Kansans denied themselves alcohol, he had to close up the Topeka saloons. His saloon-closing performance sent him to the Legislature. Thence he reached Congress, in 1893. He was a House member for 14 years, a Senator for three six-year terms thereafter...
...means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar. If I were to enumerate all his successful reconstructions I should never...
...administration at Columbia had said: "In the absence of any evidence that health, as revealed by vital statistics, is less good in the U. S. in 1927 than it was in 1920 [when prohibition became law], and since we have good reason to believe that less rather than more alcohol per capita is now being consumed in this country than when traffic in alcoholic beverages was an industry acceptable under the law, and since we know that alcohol used by healthy persons does not add to their health, it is my opinion that some of the general improvement in health...
...Louis Israel Dublin, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. had said: "Beginning with 1920 there has been a continuous and marked rise in the number of deaths resulting from the use of alcohol. . . . The quality of liquor used throughout the country is sufficiently bad to make up for the smaller quantity consumed. . . . We may summarize our findings as follows: that the Prohibition period is characterized by sharply declining mortality rates among children and adolescents of both sexes, and that this decline is continued over a number of additional age periods among women. The improvement is retarded among young male adults...