Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President. In New York last week, a third group of investigating Congressmen found another example of how to make money out of politics, and, incidentally, learned more about American Lithofold. While he was chief of the city's Federal Alcohol Tax Unit, James B. E. Olson apparently found time to earn up to $6,000 as a vice president for the energetic St. Louis printing firm. The committee noted that New York liquor concerns whose taxes were collected by Olson gave their label-printing contracts to Lithofold. Quite a week for legality. Not so good a week...
...become a cheap and inexhaustible source of power. ¶The coal and oil that still remain are not used as fuel. They are turned by new chemical techniques into a wide variety of valuable chemical products. ¶ Food production has been improved enormously, and less food is wasted. Alcoholic beverages, for instance, are based on synthetic alcohol with fermentation used only to give flavor, "as is now done in the case of producing sherry." ¶ Cheap and abundant power makes it possible to get fresh water from the ocean. This happened about 1985, and turned deserts that lay near...
...background of Manhattan's Fulton fish market. Lawyer Spencer Tracy, withdrawn from criminal practice because he was becoming involved emotionally in the struggle for clients' lives, reluctantly agrees to defend a neighborhood boy accused of murder. As the pressures mount, Tracy places more & more reliance on alcohol, ineptly bribes a state's witness, and fumbles his attempt to pin the crime on Waterfront Boss Eduardo Cianneili...
...words of its concocter, Dudley J. LeBlanc, is a dark brown patent medicine that tastes bad. Until the Federal Trade Commission told him to tone down, Medicine Man LeBlanc spent millions of dollars in advertising to imply that his mixture of B vitamins, minerals and honey, all bathed in alcohol, would cure almost everything. He also has a corps of gagsters turning out jingles and jokes insinuating that Hadacol is an aphrodisiac. In dry southern states, Hadacol has another virtue; its 24-proof alcoholic content makes it just the thing for binges. Medicine Man LeBlanc, who prefers straight bourbon himself...
...backward industry and limited oil reserves, the jets are an answer to a Communist prayer. Jets are rugged, have fewer moving parts, only a few of which have to be machined to fine piston-engine tolerances. They do not necessarily need high-octane gas, but fly on kerosene, wood alcohol, or, as one U.S. officer puts it, even "on coffee or old rags." The NKVD was instructed to round up everyone in Germany who knew how to build jets. U.S. and British bombers had done the Russians an unintentional favor by making the Nazis push their factories deeper into Eastern...