Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slash pine for paper, Tung oil for varnishes, soy beans for oils and plastics were all mentioned; but the big new proposed market-which might pull us out of the Depression, as did the automobile in 1920-21-is power alcohol...
...billion, six hundred million gallons of 199 proof anhydrous alcohol would be needed to make a 10% blend with the approximate 16,000,000,000 annual U. S. gasoline consumption. That this would relieve the problem of the agricultural surplus is indicated by the fact that to make it would consume all of the wheat raised in the U. S.; or on the other hand all of the oats, barley, rye and white potatoes; or on the other hand from one-third to one-half of the corn...
American Commercial Alcohol Corp. President Russell R. Brown...
...which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need occurs to conserve...
...Alcohol v. Gasoline. Two years ago the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the American Automobile Association conducted road tests to learn how blended alcohol and gasoline worked in motors. The decision was that alcohol-gasoline blends were less satisfactory and more expensive than pure gasoline with prices as they were. Nonetheless, farmers desperate for earnings have pushed laws to require mixtures of the two fuels. Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and California have been lined up. The policy is to compel the use of home-produced alcohol in the blend or to forego taxes on alcohol used in motors...