Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed a $5 per barrel tax, required brewers to take out a $1,000 Federal license. Re-enacted was the old Webb-Kenyon law to protect Dry States from Wet Shipments...
...House passed the Cullen bill 316-to-97, with 73 Republicans going Wet, 58 Democrats staying...
...Harvard's architectural survival to interview the janitor. "Beer mugs? Say there never was to beer in Cambridge!" asserted this official, "No, you see Cambridge has nearly always been dry. For years before Prohibition there were laws forbidding the sale of liquor in Cambridge. Now Somerville was the wet place--you could buy anything there, but it wouldn't have done any good to sell beer around College. A Harvard man satisfied with beer? Say, I've lived here in Cambridge all my life, and I never yet seen the Harvard man that only took a stein of beer when...
American Car & Foundry, world's biggest of its kind, emerged as president in 1916. His company also builds ACF cruisers. When Federal agents began potshooting innocent yachtsmen as rum-runners, Mr. Woodin turned violently Wet (TIME, April...
...Boole, in the gallery, sat down hard. Tears welled in her old hazel eyes. Below her on the floor a five-minute Wet demonstration erupted...