Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other refineries had shut down within the week: the Pekin, Ill. plant of Corn Products Refining Co. (world's second largest) and the American Maize Products factory at Roby, Ind. These shutdowns were serious business: corn products are a staple of war (munitions, alcohol), as well as in civilian life. The refineries closed because, in effect, the U.S. corn growers were on strike: they didn't want to sell their corn at the $1.07 ceiling price, when they could make a better profit feeding the corn to hogs (or selling it to hog growers via the black market...
...Detroit, San Diego, Newport News, Cleveland, Buffalo, Louisville-new facilities have been installed, but dangers of a shortage are still acute. War production wallows in water. Nearly 80 tons of water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed to test each airplane engine. Present rationing plans are mild, would limit the digging of wells only by corporations and municipalities. The aim: prevent unnecessary digging, preserve the underground water supply, insure the U.S. against a prolonged drought...
...product, hexamine (full name: hexamethylenetetramine) has been recognized by chemists for years as having explosive possibilities. It is a white granular substance that looks and feels like sugar, is chemically compounded from ammonia gas and formaldehyde (which in turn is produced from wood alcohol...
...school is an outgrowth of Dr. Haggard's Laboratory of Applied Physiology and his Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Teamed with him in all three is Physiologist Elvin Morton Jellinek. Says Dr. Haggard: "This school is not financed by liquor interests nor by the drys, but out of the regular Laboratory research funds." The curriculum will include: physiology national and class liquor attitudes and practices; traffic problems; relations of personality to alcohol; suicide; crime; heredity; temperance movements; social control; legislation; church strategy...
Said the Harvard Crimson of Yale's interest in alcohol: "Significant...