Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bemelmans tales will bear reading to little tots. One such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...
...dress or hat every few months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth of knowing Nazis who recall his bibulous "Strength Through Joy" trip accompanied by bevies of blooming beauties. Opening a "House for the Care of Beauty" in Berlin recently, Dr. Ley, whose wife is no dowdy, damned fashions because they waste materials, "which...
Last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton and associates* of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn* announced a new method of treating the "constant, excruciating, burning, boring" headaches of chronic alcoholics. When the system is flooded with alcohol, large amounts of histamine, a protein derivative, pour into the blood stream. Somehow, said the doctors, the histamine expands blood vessels in the head, causes hangover headaches. Strangely enough, they found that "immunizing" injections of minute quantities of histamine brought permanent relief to 65 patients, no improvement to ten patients...
...women and 50,000 textile workers paraded to celebrate the downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay Presidency (77,221 square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor...
...decreed last week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled the penalties for abortion and increased those on obscene literature; 3) slapped a tax on bachelors and childless families; 4) increased the tax on alcohol to pay for the campaign. This year's appropriation to pay for the "Code of the French Family" was 9,000,000,000 francs...