Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haggard and Greenberg washed their mouths with soap & water but could not get rid of the smell. They rinsed their mouths with 30% solution of alcohol in water, with no better results. Then "by washing the teeth and tongue and rinsing the mouth with a solution of chloramine" they "immediately and completely rid" themselves of the odors. Last week they advised: "It is probable that many cases of foul breath from other causes would be amenable to the same treatment...
...Enactment of statutes to continue the NRA-born Federal Alcohol Control Administration, Petroleum Administrative Board, Central Statistical Board, Electrical Home & Farm Authority...
...House of Gurney, of Yankton, operating 500 filling stations over five western States, has pioneered with a. 2 ½% alcohol, 97 % gasoline blend, selling at the same price as the ordinary gas. . . . I have used it entirely since February, without any carburetor adjustments. It gives a sweet running motor. The alcohol has splendid antiknock properties. By keeping the engine carbon free it permits the use of third run gasoline, hence giving greater mileage...
...South Dakota legislature, lately adjourned, enacted a law permitting the blend to be sold in the State as legal gas; the Nebraska legislature has relieved the alcohol content of a blend from payment of the State gasoline...
...solitary speaker at the Dearborn Conference of Industry, Science and Agriculture who did not see the practicality of alcohol-gasoline blending as a panacea for farmers' ills, let me congratulate you on your discerning report on the general proceedings there. A joint impartial study of the project, proposed through me by the American Petroleum Institute, if accepted by the Chemical Foundation, will reveal the fallacy of the project on the basis of present conditions and costs and the hopelessness of future manufacture of alcohol at prices of 7? per gallon, such as are predicted by enthusiastic protagonists...