Word: dryest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday and Wednesday formed their first impressions of the liquor situation at the exact period which wets choose as a starting point for their misleading statistics. By way of illustration, in 1911 there were somewhat more than four deaths per 100,000 due to alcoholism; in 1920 the dryest period in history, the figures were a little more than one per 100,000; now the death rate for that number attributable to alcoholism is 3.4. We must look at the pre-war years, as so many wets are unwilling to do, in order to form a just estimate...