Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Paris' Franc-Tiretir: "No one is really an enemy of wine-in France-but it is hard to ask Frenchmen to drink more than their bellyful for the sole purpose of draining off the harvest surplus." Frenchmen, already the world's biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages (seven gals, per person per year, on a pure alcohol basis, v. one gal. per American), drank about 1.2 billion gals, of wine last year, 75% of what they put away in prewar years. Yet wine production was about the same as before the war (1.9 billion gals.), almost a third...
Frenchmen, of course, prefer the better wines, but they are far too expensive. So the French consume less table wine than they used to, and the government supports prices by buying up low-grade wines to convert into industrial alcohol. Nevertheless, the problem of surpluses gets worse. Wine is the backbone of the French economy. As the country's biggest business, employing 5,000,000, it brings in more government revenue than any other industry: 70 billion francs a year ($200 million...
...Winegrowers. Two months ago. faced with a huge deficit, the government announced that it would cut down on its price-support purchases for alcohol. As a result, 50,000 Midi winegrowers struck and stopped shipping wine. The government put down the strike and promised reforms...
...Joseph Laniel issued a set of decrees designed to put the industry back on its feet. To keep only the best grades of wine on the market, growers will be compelled to turn over 12% of their harvest to the government, at a low price, for distillation into industrial alcohol. If there is still overproduction by 1958, the government will force the winemakers to uproot a percentage of their vines each year until output matches sales. As one expert summed it up: "The French wine industry is now at the crossroads, and the question is quality or quantity...
...Compound 2601-A is the best thing they have found for controlling the nausea which often follows the taking of drugs, and occurs regularly in such disorders as cancer, ear inflammation and uremia. Also, 2601-A straightens out drinkers who have too violent a reaction from the combination of alcohol and disulfiram (Antabuse...