Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alcohol injected into certain nerves as they emerge from the spine relieves pain without otherwise affecting the patient. Therefore, Dr. Perry Maurice Lichtenstein, Manhattan criminologist, uses the method to speed the cure of narcotic addicts. The alcohol quiets the nausea, neuralgia and other symptoms which the addict surfers while quitting his habit...
...Directors of National Distillers Products Corp., No. 1 U. S. whiskey company, voted to split its stock 3-for-1-first major stock split of the New Deal. Leader of the summer bull market in alcohol stocks, National Distillers skyrocketed from $16 a share early this year to a high of $124, sold last week at $104. Among the large holders were the David A. Schulte interests which sold their Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last June for $600,000 cash and 102,000 shares of common stock...
...have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days left for the bootleggers and gangsters, who will continue to ignore licenses, taxes and import tariffs...
Second First Second Quarter Quarter Quarter 1932 (000 omitted) Standard Brands $3,567 $3,180 $4,025 Commercial Solvents.. 412 224 295 Continental Oil 2,135d 2,$25d 1.616 Childs 5d 9 2 International Silver... 50d 362d 401d National Dairy Products 5,153† ; U. S. Industrial Alcohol 299† 32† National Cash Register 37d Air Reduction $720 $379 $588 Hendix Aviation 816 267d...
...could have made 2700% on your money if you had bought Hiram Walker last year at $2 a share and sold last week at $56; of how you could have bought National Distillers last spring for $17 and sold it last week for $117; of how Canadian Industrial Alcohol jumped from $2.50 to $24. These were facts. But thicker flew the rumors of how this company or that planned to enter the whiskey business, reap fat profits from the fact that Americans are proverbially a whiskey-drinking people. And the stockmarket soared to New Deal highs. Standard Brands lately announced...