Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. could make 17-year-old whiskey in 24 hours. There were importers large & small, California wine growers, New York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen, bootleggers. There were realtors, hairdressers and elevator boys, all wild-eyed over their ''slices" in this or that liquor syndicate. In London...
...Federal Alcohol Control Administration to rule the industry without benefit of any liquor representatives; 2) no additions to present plant capacity except by a certificate of necessity from the F. A. C. A. and absolute control of production and distribution through a quota system; 3) power to fix prices; 4) an agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture to pay "parity" prices established by him for raw materials. Administration of the separate codes for brewers, importers and distributors, which come up for hearings this week, was also to be placed in the hands of the omnipotent...
...liquor business was the whiskey business. In 1913 the U. S. drank 135,000,000 gal. of rye and Bourbon, 5,000,000 gal. of gin, 1,500,000 gal. of Scotch, a trickle of Irish. Rum, wine, brandy, liqueurs cut no figure. The Prohibition liquor business was an alcohol business and liquor consumption rose to at least 200,000,000 gal. a year. No one knows how much the U. S. taste has changed in the era of cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least...
...President Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp. took command of a hodge-podge of subsidiaries that made alcohol, yeast and maraschino cherries. He had a fair share of the dwindling medicinal liquor business and 9,000,000 gal. of fine old whiskey which belonged to people who had bought the warehouse receipts. He sold some of the subsidiaries, paid off $11,000,000 of debts, bought back most of his whiskey. But around his clubs when asked about his whiskey business, Seton Porter usually made a sour face, and did a quiet but extraordinarily able job of corporate management...
...perplexed Milwaukee doctor. Several of his women patients, veteran pepper picklers, had found this year for the first time that pickling made their hands burn. Solemnly last week the Journal hazarded various opinions on the malady's cause, recommended thorough hand-washing after pickling, use of an alcohol & menthol solution to alleviate the smarting. Then the Journal cocked an eye, suggested that the condition might appropriately be named "pepper picklers' paresthesia...