Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion, to point out concretely how, in my opinion, the sources of illegal domestic liquor can be dried up. "The present orgy of lawlessness is utterly unnecessary. The Federal Government has a right to give or refuse a permit to make or dispose of beer, liquor or alcohol in any form and to describe its conditions. "If the Federal Government would write into each of its permits to manufacture, transport, store or utilize alcoholic liquors certain simple conditions it would make lawbreaking so difficult as to be practically impossible." Mr. Pinchot has found his issue...
...whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female rat. This vitamin can be extracted from the wheat embryo with ethyl alcohol and ether and a daily dose of 100 milligrams of the resulting oil cures sterility in the rats...
...Four states (New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan) paid more than half of the total Federal taxes, $1,315,769,011. ¶Taxes on medicinal liquor and manufacturing alcohol fell from $79,000,000 to $40,000,000 from the previous year. ¶The increased consumption of cigars was 8%; of cigarettes, 33%; of smoking tobacco, 4%; of snuff, 3%; of playing cards...
Scientists say the new stimulant has the advantage, over alcohol and alkaloids, of being a natural factor in bodily processes. It is non-intoxicating and non-habit-forming. Since the War " it has been given to miners, laborers (up to a quarter ounce per day), horses, oxen with good effect...
...bank balances of $70,287. Mr. Rockefeller's stocks included shares of Standard Oil subsidiaries worth about $3,000,000; also 55,686 shares of St. Paul preferred; 28,517 shares Inspiration Copper; 5,000 Lackawanna Railroad; 39,300 Midvale Steel; 17,300 U. S. Industrial Alcohol; 15,300 Union Pacific; 2,330 Glen Alden Coal; 8,400 New York Central; shares in the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Guaranty Trust, Hanover National, Mechanics and Metals National, and National City Banks; as well as many minor securities...