Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gasoline "which under ordinary conditions will burn only with a wick as kerosene does, but which in spite of this is satisfactory in tractors and special automobile engines in warm climates in summer," observed Robert Thompson Haslam, vice president of Standard Oil Development Co. He foresees industrial alcohol made from waste refinery gases. One of the largest current uses for these gases is in the manufacture of hydrogen. Cottonseed Gasoline. Cottonseed makes good hog and cow food and palatable cooking oil. If the oil is fed into a metal coil...
...Gustav Egloff of Chicago, too high for all but a few districts in the U. S., but not too high for countries a long distance from gasoline sources. Other breakdown products of cottonseed oil include Diesel engine oil, coke, gases, water. Certain of the gases can be converted into alcohol, anti-freeze materials. Museums. No community of more than 50,000 in the U. S., Canada or Great Britain lacks a museum of some kind. The U. S. has about 1400 museums of which 300 are devoted to Science and Industry. U. S. museums are intended to attract the general...
...TIME, Sept. 28). Without the radicalism of its original, it delineates the evils of drink and shows, without partiality Wet or Dry, that guzzling to excess brings misery. The heroine (Dorothy Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth (Robert Young), whose father, like her own, is inebriate. Because of Prohibition, the father (Walter Huston) drinks raw alcohol...
Suggested topics for the contest are: Beverage alcohol.--Shall society control its use? Personal and social effects of alcohol. Should the use of liquor in college be controlled? How? A national policy of education and legislation, Is there any adequate alternative to complete prohibition? A constructive campus policy...
Someone put alcohol in Bernard Marx's blood surrogate while he was still in his bottle, and Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...