Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Hatch Andrews, 32, Johns Hopkins chemist, announced last week that he has transposed the inaudible high pitch of atomic vibrations into piano sounds. The quavers of grain alcohol thus became a harmonic chord out of which Professor Andrews composed a pretty melody. Water's translated sound was a soft murmur, wood alcohol sounded harsh and sharp, gasoline was a crash...
...Commission also recommended that doctors be freed from the unethical requirement of publishing the patient's ailment on the prescription. Promptly James M. Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, ordered his agents to act accordingly. The individual regained the privilege of keeping his ills secret...
...Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. ¶ In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon...
American Bank Note 3,380 2,243 American Commercial Alcohol 1,395 56 American & Foreign Power* 22,310 26,002 American-Hawaiian Steamship 1,187 285 American Locomotive 6,851 3,778 American Thermos Bottle 323 201 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2,300 3,036 Bon Ami 1,455 1,356 Century Ribbon Mills 27D 172D Chrysler Corp 21,902 234 Consolidated Cigar 3,314 2,372 Cream of Wheat 1,882 1,868 Drug 17,013 21,123 Gabriel 618D 98D General Bronze 1,128 969D General Printing Ink 1,378 850 Hayes Body 245D 852D Houston...
...years later Captain Hobson re tired from the Navy and went into the politics of Alabama, where he was born. He was in Congress as a Representative from 1907 to 1915. He was the first Congressman to introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...