Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...break in the drought was caused by a sudden improvement in the industrial-alcohol supply. For months, WPB has gloomily predicted that the U.S. would fail by some 20,000,000 gallons to meet this year's requirements. The reason: the synthetic-rubber program was swallowing far more alcohol than estimated, mainly because the petroleum process plants were getting into production so slowly (TIME, Feb. 14). But a fortnight ago Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey lopped 20,000,000 gallons off his estimated needs. Barring unexpected war demands, further improvement in the production of rubber-from-petroleum may mean another...
...curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
...Geigy Co., Inc., an old dye firm with branches in Switzerland and New York, told reporters in Manhattan how the chemical was discovered. Like penicillin, DDT was known long before its usefulness was appreciated. A complicated chemical (full name: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), whose chief ingredients are chlorine, alcohol and sulfuric acid, DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by a German student named Othmar Zeidler. He had no idea of its possibilities as an insecticide, dismissed his discovery in six lines in a German chemical journal...
...Production Board agreed last week that the U.S. needs a good, stiff drink* To previous suggestions of a liquor-making "holiday," convivial WPB Chairman Donald Nelson has returned a firm no. This time he told Senate investigators that beverage alcohol has been listed next among essential civilian needs; limited production may be allowed as soon as sufficient industrial alcohol has been stockpiled. But that time, said Mr. Nelson. is still at least three or four months away...
...harvest-for the eighth successive season-the grain traders argue that there will not be enough grain for all needs. Livestock numbers, they say, must be reduced 20 to 30% if the U.S. is to have bread for its citizens, corn for its war industries* and wheat for industrial alcohol. When livestock numbers are reduced, the U.S. will tighten its belt...