Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm. The solution practically "tans" tissues it comes in contact with. Dr. Cutler uses it to toughen cysts which he must scoop out of brains...
Your gasoline alcohol correspondents, Ralph Lovelady of Iowa and Tribuno of New York, have touched on a potent subject in your Feb. 20 issue. They, however, neglected to mention that 20 years ago much of the power of the country was furnished by animals called horses: that agriculture furnished the fuel called corn, oats and hay to run these horses: that man invented automobiles, trucks and tractors. Exit horses and exit also an important part of agriculture's market...
...Homer William] Hall of Illinois (paternal ancestor) has introduced a bill in this session. now in the Ways & Means Committee of the House, which if passed will make it compulsory that all gasoline used in the U. S. for fuel purposes be blended with grain alcohol made from agricultural products grown in the U. S. This would return a part of the lost market mentioned above, would solve the irritating surplus problems of the fruit growers of Florida and California, the cotton and rice growers of the South the wheat growers of the Northwest and the corn growers...
Iowa State College estimates that by tincturing the nation's gasoline with 10% of alcohol made from surplus crops, an annual outlet would be provided for 600,000,000 bu. of corn. Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa, next Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12) is credited with having first commended to President-elect Roosevelt legislation requiring a gasoline-alcohol mixture. James Maurice Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, has prepared a report on the project for Mr. Roosevelt...
Scott Durand, rich Chicago sugar dealer, North Shore socialite, learned while junketing in South America that he had been indicted by the U. S. Government for controlling, with six others, a chain of alcohol stills. Friends of Mr. Durand laid the charge to overzealousness of Federal sleuths, pointed out that a corn sugar dealer is not responsible for what his clients make out of corn sugar...