Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Largely ignoring smugglers and moonshiners, Major Mills maintained that 98% of bootleggers' supplies came from the diversion of industrial alcohol. Suppose, for example, that a manufacturer of perfumes has a permit to possess large quantities of denatured alcohol. Were he dishonest, he might sell this alcohol, labelled as "perfume," to an equally dishonest wholesaler. Then the wholesaler sells the "perfume" to a bootlegger, who re-distills the alcohol and uses it, sparingly, in the making of intoxicants. Seeing in such diversion of industrial alcohol the major source of bootleggers' supplies, Major Mills recommended closer inspection of permit holders...
...more and more of the U. S. population was brought under State prohibition laws between the years 1870 and 1917, total consumption of alcohol in the U. S. increased almost three times as fast as the population...
...During the same period, per capita consumption of alcohol was multiplied more than two-and-one-half times...
...precisely similar way national Prohibition is the silk hat of the American people. It ensures our respectability and has never so far interfered with the desired consumption of alcohol. We are psychologically not a realistic people, but on the contrary a naively idealistic folk...
...confused with the deathrate from wood or denatured alcohol poisoning...