The US Government's Plan to Make Alcohol More Toxic

Government chemists were developing a secret project in the aid of prohibition, people whispered. Dry officials issued warnings that drinking was about to become more risky. A new chemists war was brewing, it was said, pitting government scientists against those employed by the country's powerful bootlegging empires. If alcohol was truly undrinkable the argument went, even the most devoted boozer would have to give it up.