Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasting 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant and sent up 25,000 bbls. of stored gasoline in flames...
...Wet Democratic Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts read to the Senate the following doggerel "which came to me through the mail from Iowa...
...there is any one thing that incenses the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, it is to be reminded of the fact that the trans-Atlantic vessels of the U. S. Lines are wet. The Lines' operators are careful not to broadcast this fact in their U. S. advertising, when they appeal to patriotic citizens to travel under the U. S. flag...
Sounding like a regular Dry, Congressman Fort declared that Prohibition was here to stay, that it was responsible in part for U. S. economic advancement, that the Press was grossly biased, that the Wets had no adequate substitute for liquor control. But like a thoroughgoing Wet he sounded when he said: "The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act made unlawful the traffic in liquor-not its use. . . . Sincere friends of temperance have done the cause of Prohibition its greatest injury by insisting that the use of alcohol has become immoral." As a climax, Orator Fort plumped for home winemaking, home...
...Debate on Prohibition Enforcement between Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia (Wet) of New York and Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Dry) of Iowa under auspices of Cleveland Advertising Club, in Cleveland...