Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within two weeks at Chicago, Wall Street experienced a flurry in the shares of companies most likely to be benefited by a change in the law. The group of stocks Wall Street has come to call the "Wet Shares" includes Owens-Illinois Glass Co., National Distillers Products, American Commercial Alcohol, Crown Cork & Seal, Park & Tilford. Neatly timed to coincide with the Wet flurry was a $1,000,000 offering of shares in a brewery, the first sale of a brewery stock since...
...pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space. The steady jeering of Mencken, Lewis, and the highbrows is allowed to echo through the book's pages and upon finishing, one can understand why Mencken once answered the question of why he stays in America by, why do people...
...Philadelphia, because the liquor ran out at a party, John Cupo boasted that he would willingly drink grain alcohol neat. Host John Boccalupo gave his guest a tumbler of alcohol. Gulping it down, John Cupo gasped, gagged, sputtered and finally spewed it out on the floor. Shaking with laughter Host Boccalupo tossed a lighted match at John Cupo, who burst into flames, was severely burned...
...Defeated (55-10-26) a bill introduced by Connecticut's Bingham to legalize beer containing 2.75% alcohol, to be taxed 2? a pint for revenue purposes...
...Well, I haven't had any alcohol yet but we shall conform to the laws of the country in which we live, not the country in which it is absolutely impossible to get a drink...