Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than 13 gallons of hard liquor may be bought in any one year by even the most virtuous citizen. Less than 40% of the passbook holders ask for enough to fill their quotas. Single, self-supporting women were sternly held down by Dr. Bratt to an average of a gallon a year. Bachelors must attain the age of 23 before becoming eligible for a passbook...
Restrictions on the passbook sales of wines resemble those on liquor, but are lenient in proportion to the "lightness" of the wine...
Since Dr. Bratt holds that food counteracts the effects of alcohol, Swedish restaurants may dispense liquor with meals after 12 noon, but not more than 2½ ounces to a patron before 3 p.m. Afterwards, it becomes possible by ordering an indefinite succession of meals, to tope an indefinite amount...
Each restaurant has its liquor quota. When this has been exceeded liquor may still be sold, but the proprietor is then legally compelled to dispense it at the price which he paid to the Monopoly Stores. Thus exceeding one's quota means not profit but loss, and Swedish restaurant proprietors are canny...
...some the achievement of Smart Ivan Bratt will seem inadequate; and it was with their view well in mind that he resigned as Sweden's "Liquor Tsar" last week. A Parliamentary report on the workings of the Bratt System is being prepared, prior to a national liquor plebiscite, and Dr. Bratt wants to be free to assist and testify before the investigators...