Word: alcohol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic Italy. There was Prince Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia, formaldehyde, artificial silk for black shirts, from their chemical constituents...
...would have a shot in the arm or a pink pill, change his shirt and bid every one "Good Night" with a cheery morning smile. Other chemicals-not to call them drugs-might be evolved for stimulating mental activity without robbing Peter to pay Paul, as do Cocaine, alcohol, etc. Thus, out of the test tube, a synthetic superman, "a short cut to the millennium...
...worked at the College de France. Berthelot it was who first prepared "organic" compounds (containing the inevitable constituent of living matter, carbon) from their constituent elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon. It seemed then as if Chemist Berthelot had made life from dead matter though nowadays the things he made, benzene, alcohol, etc., are regarded more calmly. (Next year France will observe the centennial of Berthelot's birth in a "house of chemistry" now abuilding in Paris...
...General Andrews on arrival in Manhattan, said: "Our chemists are not seeking more deadly poisons, as has been published, but merely something that the bootlegger can't take out of alcohol as he has learned to remove most of the poisons from the old denaturing formulae. They are seeking something which the ultimate consumer of the beverage will readily recognize from its odor and taste, so that he will know instantly that he is in possession of denatured alcohol...
...about: Baldness. Since thyroidal secretions stimulate both brain and hair growth, "it is not far wrong to assume" that, loss of hair benefits the intellect. Famine. Sir Daniel Hall demonstrated the waste, in food-units, of lands planted with hops and grapes, but added: "A race that cuts out alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that the world's food supply will some day fall far short of its population. Childhood Memories. Compose yourself, be seated with pencil...