Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard man is a drinking man. From the early days of ripe apples and the tang of sour cider, down through the uproarious debauches of the Memorial Hall dining room, students have preserved a taste for alcohol, straight or mixed...
According to this study of College seniors, one-half of the members of athletic teams drink during season, one-third of the students spend less than a dollar a month on alcohol, and one-quarter of the students have passed out from drinking. Pugh adds that between one-seventh and one-eighth of the students are consistent heavy drinkers...
...alcohol container, on the right, necessitates two holes, one on top and one on the side. After you have finished drilling, solder the parts together to make the two boxes. One word of caution: because this still requires heat, the fuel box, at bottom left, must have hinged, closable cover. Otherwise, you will lose your pants on a windy...
Ford's discovery of wood alcohol in the bodies of two Boston men confirmed police suspicious that the deaths were caused by poison liquor distributed through a gang of Revere moonshiners. There is still 100 gallons of the alcohol unaccounted for while the number of victims has reached eight. A few weeks 220, a similar situation resulted in over 25 deaths in Atlanta, Georgia...
...When he ran short of cheap "sugarhead" moonshine to fill a big order consigned to Atlanta's Negro slums, 360-lb. Bootlegger John R. ("Fat") Hardy whipped up a substitute. Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventyseven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men & women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions...