Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing new or sensational left to say. Only stunt: appearance before the House of New York's Sirovich, a physician, with 18 bottles of beer, a pint of Scotch whiskey, a quart of milk and a declaration that the 18 bottles of beer contained the same amount of alcohol as the pint of whiskey, that in physical composition the beer and milk were equally good as food...
...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...There has been a considerable change of sentiment on the part of a majority of the people with reference to Prohibition. . . . Congress may permit the manufacture and sale of any alcoholic liquor which may reasonably be said to be non-intoxicating in fact. Your committee believes that 3.2% beer is, on eminent authority, non-intoxicating in fact. . . . The alcohol is so diluted that it would require considerable effort on the part of an average person to drink enough to become drunk...
...have to wait until bedtime. . . . There are plenty of occasions during the day, for instance, when you are fatigued or fingers or toes are cold, or for no reason at all except that you need something warm and stimulating." Milk is an efficacious adjunct to alcoholic liquors because, more than any other food, it inhibits intoxication by retarding the accumulation of alcohol in the blood. By itself, alcohol is not warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help...
Representing all parts of Belgium, this Brussels demonstration was against the proposed tax increase on beer and other drinkables which Belgian legislators want to jack sky-high in the name of Temperance. Demanding "reasonable taxes." the grocers & wineshop-keepers charged that Belgian "bootleggers are making fortunes by selling illicit alcohol while honest shopkeepers pay all the taxes...