Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ontario recently went wet to the extent of 4.4% alcohol...
...Much later, about three years ago, when I was about 88, I had another bad day. This time the analysis showed that alcohol was the trouble. . . . had made it a habit to drink a pint of champagne a day. It was tonic, stimulating, just as cigars were tonic and stimulating. But, at 88, it interfered with health and efficiency. Reluctantly but decisively I cut out the wine. Now I take a glass when a cold threatens-and I'm extremely susceptible to colds-but, apart from that, I'm a total abstainer...
...Wood Alcohol. German manufacturers of synthetic methanol (wood alcohol), from water gas, threaten the $100,000,000 hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...
...Drinking Alcohol. It takes only a little more perfectly pure whiskey than is necessary to induce deep intoxication to produce death. How you take it makes a difference, too. Many deaths result from drinking wagers, on time and quantity. In illicit U. S. liquors, the chief dangerous ingredient is acetaldehyde.?Dr. Reid Hunt, Harvard Medical School...
Endeavorists. Leopold Schepp, Manhattan coconut importer, known as "The Coconut King,"* last week set aside $2,500,000 to found a most original organization. It will enroll boys of between 12 and 16, who will sign a pledge to abstain from bad habits, particularly alcohol, to comply with the laws of any country they may happen to be in, to treat their companions kindly, to make themselves better men for the women they are going to marry. If they keep the pledge for two years, they will receive from $100 to $200. They will be called ''Endeavorists." Said Mr. Schepp...