Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, who raised a group of "axenic" Mexican platyfish (Platypoecttus maculatus) from birth to full maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into warm, sterile water, later transferred them to sterile, stoppered milk bottles...
...last week the alcohol process was the brightest spot in the picture. Paced by Carbide & Carbon's plants at Institute, W. Va. and Louisville, Ky., butadiene from alcohol is now actually furnishing 75% of all butadiene. Built last year to produce only 220,000 tons, the plants have been geared up to 150% of capacity, and can turn out an unbelievable 330,000 tons a year. Thus, the alcohol process has shouldered in to take over the big job. Even by the end of the year, when all petroleum butadiene plants will presumably be in production, alcohol will still...
...even this successful program will probably run afoul of shortages of 1) alcohol, 2) grain. Fortnight ago, WPB wangled another 38,000,000 bu. of grain from the War Food Administration, is now furiously working to finish three alcohol distilling plants at Omaha, Kansas City and Muscatine, Iowa. But WPB can get no more grain without cutting into the U.S. food and feed supply. Petroleum must do the rest...
...Kinks. But the petroleum process is not pulling its weight. The plants are from six to nine months behind construction schedule, are still only 85% completed. The flow of butadiene from them is discouragingly small. Oilmen wrathfully blame the delay on ex-Rubber Boss Jeffers, who gave the alcohol-processing plants a long head start by handing out super-duper priorities to all of them. The oilmen got what was left...
...Rubber Boss Dewey calmly points to the glowing alcohol-production record to prove that the program was right, the oilmen wrong. The hard fact is that the much simpler alcohol process ran into fewer production kinks than those which knotted up petroleum butadiene production, split as it is among 13 companies, tinkering with five different processes. What worked like a dream in the laboratory is turning out to have some nightmarish bursts in big-scale production. Best example: the Houdry Process, widely publicized a year and a half ago, has yet to get into satisfactory production...