Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conversion of farm surplus products as wheat, corn, rye, rice, potatoes, beets, grapes, apples, peaches, molasses, etc. into denatured alcohol to replace a very small percentage, say not more than 5%, of gasoline or motor fuel...
...total consumption of motor fuel in 1929 amounted to 409,240,000 bbl. of 42 gal. each. This quantity would require [a blend] of 20,000,000 bbl. of alcohol, obtainable, on a rough estimate, from about 40,000,000 tons of farm products or byproducts, damaged crops which at an average cost of say about $10 per ton would yield the farmers in this country about...
...detect substances dissolved in one million times their volume of water, and can do this with just two drops of the solution. It can detect the relative amounts of almost identical substances in a mixture, as fumaric and maleic acids. It can detect minute traces of poisonous adulterants of alcohol and ether, natural and synthetic vinegar, normal and abnormal urine. Professor Heyrovsky, who has been working with and refining the polarograph for a decade, declares it quicker, more sensitive, more accurate than any other method of analysis...
...beaming over a champagne goblet, a girl toying with an aperitif; but the text pointed a moral. Entitled "I Fell Off the Water Wagon," it was the testimonial of a middle-aged man who reached the final conclusion that drink is a curse. Apparently that was enough alcohol in one issue for Editor Lorimer. On Page 7 illustrating another story appeared a picture of a group of men & women gathered for cocktails before dinner. Their hands, awkwardly poised, were empty. Close inspection revealed the faint outlines of cocktail glasses all but obliterated by a retouch artist's brush...
...Brucer discovered that Mrs. Lynch, a volatile Frenchwoman who once was a War nurse, was not "treating Mr. Lynch right." Mrs. Brucer rented a room in a Dearborn Street boarding house for her new-found friend, fed him. In return, he helped her prepare her temperance speeches, research alcohol problems. "All the men in the Business Men's Prohibition Foundation." said she, "are such fine fellows...