Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearings over, the committee pondered its course. Representatives of California vintners wanted naturally fermented wine included in H. R. 13,312. Such a proposal the committee rejected (14-to-9) for two reasons: 1) the alcoholic content of wine cannot be precisely controlled as in beer; 2) inclusion of wine would reduce to an absurdity the committee's contention that what the bill authorized fell outside the 18th Amendment as non-intoxicants in fact. Finally the Ways & Means made liquor history by voting 17-to-7 to report the Collier Bill to the House with these conclusions...
...There has been a considerable change of sentiment on the part of a majority of the people with reference to Prohibition. . . . Congress may permit the manufacture and sale of any alcoholic liquor which may reasonably be said to be non-intoxicating in fact. Your committee believes that 3.2% beer is, on eminent authority, non-intoxicating in fact. . . . The alcohol is so diluted that it would require considerable effort on the part of an average person to drink enough to become drunk...
...Estimates by brewing interests place the probable consumption at 40,000,000 bbl. within the next two years. On this basis the revenue would be in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 annually. . . . The committee was informed that brewers could produce a barrel of beer and deliver it for $6.26, exclusive of taxes. . . . The legalization of beer will give employment to 75,000 men in breweries, about 225,000 in its retail distribution...
...Bootleg beer is offered for sale at prices ranging from...
...warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help promote sleep; those containing alcohol may do so if stimulation is absent or has subsided. The hypnotic action of beer is due in part to the lupulin of the hops rather than to the alcohol content...