Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris certainly does not compare with London in warlike appearance. Practically no sandbags. The "blackout" is a blaze. No reassuring balloons pattern the sky, no robot aerial guard, fewer cars, of course. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The Ritz barman told me that they now feed alcohol to the cars...
...Alcohol is plentiful here and not restricted to three sale-days a week. Motor and man drink from the same...
...then the "chemurgic movement" has gathered headway with soybeans for plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...
Harmless Pleasures. "Most useful" and "safest" stimulant is caffeine, principal active ingredient of coffee and tea. "A moderate amount such as is contained in one or two cups of coffee . . . heightens the intellectual functions, increases the efficiency of the muscles and lessens the feeling of fatigue. . . . Although alcohol is frequently used as a stimulant, its real effect is to depress the nervous system . . . like ether or chloroform." Those who like liquor ought to save their drinking till night, when they don't have to work or drive a car. Contrary to popular opinion, "mere mixing of good liquors will...
...streets of the Windy City. The people had fled from hot pavements to the beach, the woods, and the suburbs. But in a huge auditorium, which looked and smelled like the local stock yards, milled twenty thousand yelling, cursing, sweating delegates. The air, foul with tobacco and alcohol, and humid with perspiration, was unbearable. The men, after hours of frenzied attempts at agreement, were tired and sick. They paid no attention to the speakers except to hiss off the platform those whose stentorian tones interrupted conversations on the floor. The chairman wearily hammered his gavel and introduced the last speaker...