Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal business, particularly the bituminous part, has long had trouble making money. Despite great reserves of mined coal, competition from gas, oil and waterpower have kept prices low. The producers have become aggressively intent on selling coal derivatives-pulverized coal, tar, fuel oil, gasoline, gas, dyes, perfumes, drugs, alcohol, etc., etc. How to get those products, scientists already know much; how to utilize that knowledge, coal men know very little...
...Journal, the Mobile Register, Senators Simmons and Heflin, Governor Moody of Texas. Roman Catholicism, anti-Prohibition and Tammany were, of course, in all Southerners' minds. Governor Moody was more polite than most when he centred his fire on Mr. Raskob, whom he called "a cynical commercialist with an alcohol complex...
...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...
...MURDER PROTESTANTS AND DESTROY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS THE OATH BINDING ROMAN CATHOLICS There was also a poem, entitled "Alcohol Smith's Platform," of which this verse was typical...
...consumption of sugar in the United States has increased tremendously and as a result of the strain on the pancreatic function, diabetes has become a more prevalent disease. Diabetes is not a prominent disease in the aged, but it is particularly true in the diabetes of old age that alcohol has a useful and prominent place in the treatment of the disease...