Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the official revelation some days ago by the head of the Federal Alcohol Administration that more than half of the country's alcoholic output -- and consumption -- was of illegitimate origin, Government preparations for doing away with the admittedly nefarious traffic have been going forward at a high rate. Action followed rapidly on the heels of outcry, and overnight the new Alcohol Tax Unit joined the Administration's numerous progeny through the merger of the old Bureaus of Prohibition and of Industrial Alcohol Control. Boasting a doubled enforcement outfit, the super-efficient A.T.U. has announced to the country through...
Long Life. Seth Lincoln, 91, of Worcester (Mass.), works as a typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...
...Bolivian Andes. By day the treeless wilderness rang with the blows of a crude stone hammer as a swarthy Bolivian and a handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer...
...fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...enough to have to pay an exorbitant price for whiskey that is composed of very little but alcohol, water, and burnt sugar; but when it contains substances that fail very little short of being poisonous the last crushing straw has been added. In New York analyses of "Sam Thompson pure rye whiskey" has revealed that it had in it sufficient diethylphthalate, a denaturant causing nausea, to render the liquor unfit for consumption. This is not merely one isolated case, for I think that most of the cheap so-called blends are not only undrinkable slop but also contain quasi-poisons...