Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taxes reduced included cigars, alcohol, automobiles...
...Alcohol...
Birth Control. ". . . .Picture a nocturnal scene between a male of the lower stratum, somewhat stimulated by alcohol, and the feminine partner of his misery, weary after a day at the washtub or scrubbing the halls of an apartment house. The mental states of the two, it must be plain, are hardly such as to lead them to pause for consideration . . . of the economic problems of the 21st century...
...enforcement (with salaries up to $5,000) with 22 district administrators, with salaries up to $10,000 (an effort to get men of better caliber). Last week, Controller General McCarl ruled that the most he could pay his administrators was $7,500. Believing that large amounts of industrial alcohol are being diverted to bootleg channels, General Andrews also wished to have charge of issuing permits for withdrawals of such alcohol. Commissioner Blair, who has charge of this business now and collects the tax on it, insisted that control of industrial alcohol be vested, as heretofore, with him. Secretary Mellon will...
...Federal activities will be largely confined to the major sources of bootleg liquor- ignooring minor Violations, to stop the sources of supply; "importation, diversion of legitimately manufactured alcohol, illigitimate manufacture and transportation of alcohol and alcoholic beverages ... the bootleg industry...