Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Proof. Yale's Physiologist Yandell Henderson has his own ideas about alcoholism. Because drunkards thrive on hard liquor, always drink it straight, Dr. Henderson wants to dilute their liquor for them. He proposed high federal taxes on high-proof whiskey,* low taxes on low-proof. He even advocated that watered-down, 60 proof liquor be legalized. "Consumers of spirits," said Dr. Henderson, would probably "support the experiment" by drinking such cheap liquor. Result: fewer drunkards. Such "as would be still produced would be addicted to 60 to 70 proof instead of 80 to 100 proof. And this would...
...late 18th Century, when U. S. whiskey taxes came into effect, distillers began the custom of watering liquor. To test alcoholic content, buyers would sprinkle the whiskey over gunpowder, try to light it. If the alcohol content was high enough, the water low enough, the powder would burn. That was "proof." In the U. S. today, proof is double the alcohol content...
...Whiskey for Arteries. In artery ailments, such as arteriosclerosis or Buerger's disease, patients are often attacked by muscular weakness so severe that their legs buckle under them. To tone up the muscles, doctors try to send a large supply of blood to the legs. For this they give drugs to expand the blood vessels, injections of salt solution, or even cut certain tracts in the sympathetic nervous system. As a check on the blood supply they take the temperature of the skin: if the temperature rises, they assume that the leg is getting a large supply of blood...
...Belmont Bourbon, 100 proof (case: $125); 1911 Veuve Clicquot champagne (case: $84); Jiminez Varela, Oloroso 1840 sherry (case: $58); Berry Bros. Prince's Port, 50 years in wood, 34 years in bottle (case: $48); Pre-Expulsion Green Chartreuse, 4 litres only (bottle: $1,25).* Burke's Irish Whiskey, 90 proof, believed laid down in 1901 (case...
When London blacked out last September, the theatre blacked out with it. But not for long: the Government realized that a show is as much of a wartime bracer as a whiskey-&-soda, soon permitted every theatre in London to stay open till 10:45 or 11 p.m. For months, with the war so quiet that-as a wag put it-you could hear a Ribbentrop, London's theatre functioned virtually as in peacetime, except for a boom in musical shows and a drop in prices...