Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the U. S. Government ceased denaturing industrial alcohol with deadly poisons. Last week it returned to this practice on the ground that smart...
...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
...prove his contention that corn sugar, not industrial alcohol, constituted the dry problem of the moment, Commissioner James M. Doran reported...
...stills seized in northeastern States in 1929, 3,430 were manufacturing the best grade of alcohol from corn sugar. Some plants could produce 2,000 gal. of alcohol...
...Announcement by Commissioner Doran that industrial alcohol leakage is now negligible and no longer a prime Dry problem. Commissioner Doran ordered a 15% cut in the permitted production of industrial alcohol for 1930, pointed to corn sugar as the most troublesome source of 'legger alcohol. Lest it be used for beverage purposes, painter's alcohol was ordered further denatured...