Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick children to Dr. Ivan Bratt, a young and smart child specialist, in 1909. Some still do. However 1909 is pertinent because it was then that Swedish temperance societies polled 1,800,000 votes for absolute prohibition and only 20,000 for modified prohibition. That straw vote scared florid liquor barons white-and gave young Dr. Bratt a keen business idea...
...scheme was to form a money pool of shrewd, rich friends and buy out the scared liquor interests of Sweden for a song. The doctor's wife, a Baroness in her own right, and other influential connections at Court and among politicians, facilitated Schemer Bratt by contriving to postpone the enactment of national prohibition, while his pool bought out the liquor barons cheap...
Within five years, and at a total cost of only 20,000,000 kroner ($5,400,000), the entire liquor business of Sweden had been acquired and monopolized under the Bratt System...
Though the Liquor & Wine Trust (Vins och Spritcentralen) stands rock founded upon 7%, its other principles are more interesting. The return to shareholders can never be more than 7%. The surplus profits, amounting to 46% of sales last year, are turned over to the National Treasury, and usually constitute of the revenue of Sweden. Yet even these principles are not the most interesting...
...called Bratt System of liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...