Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve as adviser to Kings Brewery at $15,000 a year, had examined samples of spirits being sold in his jurisdiction, found many brands mislabeled, a few unpotable. He forthwith ordered that straight whiskey be labeled straight whiskey, blends be labeled blends (with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label), imitations be labeled imitations (with ingredients stated).* Medicinal whiskey, said Dr. Wynne, must be the stimulant which the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the Food & Drugs Act of 1906 specify as "an alcoholic liquid obtained by the distillation of a fermented mash of wholly or partly malted cereal grains, containing...
When liquor was legalized, Federal Alcohol Control Administration was swamped with 1,000 requests for permission to bring in 50,000,000 gal. of foreign wines & spirits. In the peak pre-War years, 12,000,000 gal. had been the annual importation. Accordingly, FACA issued import licenses after drastically reducing all importers' quotas. This action wrought considerably more hardship on legitimate dealers who had applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with...
...many gallons of wine? All last week the U. S. haggled that point with France. The original import quota of French wines had been 784,000 gal. Most of that had been bought up in the Christmas rush. If any more French wines were to be admitted, the Federal Alcohol Control Administration politely informed the French Embassy in Washington, France would have to buy a great deal more U. S. apples and pears...
...public in New York City, he has found that a large number have little or no right to be called whiskey inasmuch as they have been cut about ten times. In spite of the fact that those concoctions are composed for the most part of a cheap grade of alcohol they sell for the perfectly outrageous price of two and a half or three dollars a quart, when the price of straight whiskey delivered to the retailer exclusive of taxes can be as low as one dollar and twenty cents a gallon. Obviously, there is something wrong somewhere, and somebody...
...T.N.T. in the U. S. market by competitive purchases. He throws fresh light on British foreign policy when he explains that the Balfour Declaration (for a Jewish homeland) was a reward conferred on Dr. Chaim Weizmann for discovering a new process for speeding up the production of wood alcohol, vitally needed by the British Ministry of Munitions...