Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
Author of the beer bill was Mississippi's "Lame Duck" Collier. Ways & Means chairman, longtime Dry. On it the committee held a fortnight's hearings which in vehement arguments, loud controversy and ardent pleadings resembled many another Wet & Dry set-to at the Capitol. There was, however, this important difference: the committee's mind was made up in advance to act on beer. Thus, with their case already won, the Wets restricted their testimony to a minimum. Brewers supplied trade
...facts, avoided rhetoric. Eminent scientists were called to show why light beer was non-intoxicating. Industrialists offered opinions as to the fillip beer legalization would give U. S. business?$25,000,000 for delivery trucks, $320,000,000 for electrical equipment, $20,000,000 for refrigerators. $40,000,000 for wooden boxes, $50,000,000 for rail transportation...
...national chairman, began by dumping out a suitcase containing a bottle of milk, a doll, a bunch of grapes, an orange, a pair of baby shoes, a baby's coat, a pair of bedroom slippers. Flourishing a small Christmas wreath, she exclaimed: "If father gets his glass of beer by Christmas, the family will have to give up these things...
Passionately cried a Mrs. Johnson of Ohio: "Europe's beer-soaked brains got them into the World War and dragged us into...