Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue leather seats, safety belts, padded crash board, hydraulic engine hood and jacks. The engine is a supercharged 300-h.p. V-8 which weighs only 500 lbs. (250 lbs. less than Buick's current 152-h.p. engine), and runs at high speeds on a mixture of alcohol and gasoline fed from dual fuel tanks. Car's top speed: 150 m.p.h...
...labor leaders laid before the U.S. National Production Authority a plan, worked out by the Cuban Association of Manufacturers and endorsed by the government and the major unions, to gear the island's production to U.S. defense needs. Cuba would help mainly by expanding production of sugar, alcohol, textiles and minerals, especially nickel and manganese...
...Laufman suspects that alcohol may have had something to do with Johnny's stubborn survival. She had been drinking heavily. He does not think that the alcohol acted like anti-freeze in an auto radiator, but he believes it may have had some effect...
...York City's Idlewild Airport, an alert photographer spotted a dangerous stowaway: a yellow-snouted beetle, ⅝-in. long, which was crawling along the coat collar of incoming Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Department of Agriculture inspectors hastily popped the bug into a vial of alcohol, sent it to Washington for identification. Last week the bug experts reported: it was "a formidable pest," a member of the Larinus family, which lives mainly in France and Italy, is sure death to thistles and artichokes...
...June 19). A spectacular, three-dimensional display in New York's Grand Central Station and sensational advertising gimmicks in other big cities proclaim the "merits" of the mixture, which consists of B vitamins, honey, iron, phosphorous and calcium, all shaken up in a 24-proof cocktail of ethyl alcohol.* Last November, LeBlanc began urging the nation's doctors to help him sell more Hadacol. "Dear Doctor," ran a learned-sounding circular letter from the makers of Hadacol, "In order that you may give consideration to Hadacol for its therapeutic effect . . . we suggest that you check and return...