Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alcohol v. Gasoline. Because alcohol can be distilled from surplus agricultural products, alcohol-gasoline blends for motor fuel are closely linked with legislative aid to farmers. Some European states have made alcohol mixtures mandatory. In the U. S. alcoholic gasoline is a subject of controversy among fuel chemists, their views depending on whether their allegiance is to farm or refinery. Completely contradictory statements on alcohol blends were uttered from the same platform last week by Leo Martin Christensen of the Farm Chemurgic Council and Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products...
Christensen: Alcohol-gasoline blends distributed in the Midwest during the past three years have met with excellent consumer response. Better mileage, improved acceleration, practical elimination of gum and carbon deposition, smoother and more pleasing engine operation have been . . . commonly reported...
...Egloff: Alcohol-gasoline is a distinctly inferior motor fuel in performance, consumption and upkeep of motor. Difficult starting, slow acceleration,'over-heating of engines, and rougher driving can be expected...
...selling and serving of beer to young men under 18, and all women, be prohibited. . . . Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with. . . . Samoans do not carry alcohol as well as ordinary white persons. . . . The Samoans, particularly the young men, were addicted to rock throwing. . . . This habit culminated in one death. . . . The assailant was sentenced to three years in jail. . . . There has been very little trouble with rock throwing since that time...
There are at present several scholarships at Dartmouth which stipulate that the recipient must use neither tobacco nor alcohol...