Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again Vera Walush was hauled out and put on the stand, a bizarre figure in a fur coat, blue dress with sequins, platform shoes. Her neighbor, Bessie Baron, who used to supply her with bootleg alcohol, testified Vera had told her that she had had to put the finger on Joe and Teddy or the cops would have "run me out of business." Blowzy Vera squirmed and twisted through her story, insisted sullenly: "I know dey was da killers...
...crisis comes when the woman reaches 40 or 50 and her children are grown. She then resorts to "bridge, chatter, shopping expeditions, aimless clubs and, in extreme cases, to alcohol to gain an illusory sense of activity...
Dollars & Drinks. Medical care costs the U.S. consumer $4 out of every $100 that he spends. This added up to a whopping $7.4 billion in 1948. (Doctors complain that the American people spend more on alcohol-$8.8 billion...
...other extreme, the alcoholic is one whose "use of alcohol interferes with one or more of his important life activities, as, for example, his job standing and ability, his reputation, his home life. This interference is shown in behavior, in his inability to stop drinking at will, in the fact that alcohol 'handles' him . . ." Dr. Seliger even does some specific pointing: "Many of our most intelligent, versatile and useful citizens . . . are, medically speaking, alcoholics, and require treatment...