Word: pint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement was kind to U. S. Medicine. Ever since liquor was nationally regulated, doctors have carped at the rules which limited them to 100 liquor prescriptions per 90 days and directed them to prescribe no more than one pint of "spirituous liquor'' or one quart of "vinous liquor" to a patient in any ten days. The Wickersham Commission recommended that those restrictions be abolished (TIME...
...giving a fictitious patient's name. Many a doctor has vended such legalized prescriptions to druggists or bootleggers at from $1 to $1.50 per blank. On the authority of such falsified prescriptions tipplers have been enabled to buy safe, Government-bonded whiskey at from $3 to $4.50 the pint and brandy at from $4 to $7 the pint. The $400 to $600 which the individual doctor gained yearly is a goodly sum to doctors, who average slightly more than $5,000 income from legitimate practice...
Such is life in Merrie England, but can you picture the star halfback rushing up to the bar and exclaiming. "A pint of stout, my man, and make it fast; I must go out and die for dear old Rutgers"? The Stanford Daily...
...sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine), individual hospitals and private blood agencies. An estimate adds 3,000 more to the registered list. The total of 5,000 is thrice the estimated number of a few months ago. Cause of the tripling: the Depression. Sellers get $50 a pint for blood, less 10% to 20% agency commissions...
...Pittsfield, Mass, last week ten men gathered around a dozen pint bottles for a drinking bout. Seven died. Three went blind. Cause: wood alcohol used by the U. S. Treasury Department as an industrial denaturant...