Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Alcohol Tax Unit announced that fewer than 3% of New York's 20,000 bars water their whiskey...
...ministry carried on without him, however, informing Frenchmen that, the minute they caught sight of a flu suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...
...airmen will grant an "airplane climbing record" to the Bell X-1, which is hardly an airplane. It might be more accurately described as a winged, piloted rocket. It carries four tons of fuel (alcohol and liquid oxygen) and burns it all in 2½ minutes of full-power flight. With its heavy construction, straight wings and negligible payload, the X-1 is considered a sort of dinosaur among fast-flying aircraft. But it is still useful as a laboratory testing device...
...time the story had hit the newspapers, Finland was considering restrictions on the sale of Antabus, which is sold over the druggist's counter, originally as a remedy for intestinal worms and the itch (scabies). Since its anti-alcoholism qualities were discovered, Sweden has required a doctor's prescription for its Swedish equivalent, Abstinyl, to discourage dangerous experimenting by pranksters and well-meaning wives. Dr. Stig Hammergen has warned the Stockholm Woman's Medical Society that a mixture of Abstinyl and alcohol can kill people with weak hearts...
...first time in years, Swedish homes for alcoholics this year granted a week-long Christmas furlough for some inmates. They were packed off with Abstinyl tablets in their pockets for self-treatment. Dosage must be carefully regulated by a doctor; the amount needed varies with the patient. Sweden's Temperance Control Department reports best results from doses averaging four half-gram tablets the first day, two the next two days, one tablet a day until all desire for alcohol is lost...