Word: pint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia, law for the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, prescribes that one pound of crude ergot be used to make one pint of fluid extract of ergot which when injected into a white leghorn rooster will tint its comb bluish. Spanish ergot satisfies the formula. Russian ergot as imported into the U. S. docs not. Drug manufacturers have been cleaning Russian ergot of its contaminations and using two pounds of it to make a pint of extract. This Russian extract colors the cock's comb as does the Spanish...
Baltimore citizens,wondered what Director Woodcock would do about their- and his-soaking Wet city. Speakeasies in Baltimore have run openly and in great numbers for years. Good domestic gin, most popular drink, sells for $1 per pint. Maryland moonshiners supply the city with a fair grade of whiskey while the best drug store rye (cut) can be freely obtained for $5 per pint. Good beer is to be had from Pennsylvania at 35 cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign...
...nightly swarm of bums staggering from one swinging door to another, Manhattan's Bowery has been a comparatively sober thoroughfare since Prohibition. The bums have been lounging in speakeasies, drugstores, paintshops where "smoke" (colored, usually poisonous, alcohol) could be purchased for 15? the glass, 50? the pint. Last week the Bowery bums were on the street again, pitifully wandering, finding neither swinging doors nor "holes in the wall...
...when from 35% to 40% of original weight has been sacrificed. Loss of weight seems to be fairly independent of the water intake. It is a fact that a fasting person demands less water than a person on a regular diet. Such a person rarely takes more than a pint (two tumblersful) of water per day. In chronic inanition loss of the original weight can be higher without death than in complete starvation, can be reduced to 40% or 50% of original weight and has been known to have been more. Medical history contains at least one case, a woman...
Adroitly the Hollywood Restaurant publicized the "pint raid" by printing large advertisements: "WE APOLOGIZE to our patrons if any annoyance was caused them . . . when a few of our great number carried flasks into this, the largest and most popular establishment of its kind...