Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alcohol is no longer the only commodity whose entry into the United States is forbidden by the customs office. A shipment of "Candide" has been banned by the collector of the port of Boston. Not because of the radical opinions expressed therein, but because the official found that certain portions of the volume were "dirty...
Blackstrap. The close interrelation of Industry and Husbandry is clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
...alcohol manufacturers say they have no intention, if raw molasses becomes more costly, of making more alcohol from corn than they now make. Blackstrap is far cheaper than corn. Manufacturers predict they will continue the use of blackstrap, meeting the tariff boost by adding about 5¢ per gallon to the cost of their product. The farmers will pay these additional pennies (which they forced upon themselves) when they paint their barns, buy medicine, put anti-freeze in their cars...
...when, a prohibitive duty is placed on blackstrap, alcohol makers say they will turn then, not to corn but to synthetic alcohol, now developed to a point where only the cheapness of blackstrap delays its perfection...
...human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...