Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor production will stop completely on or before Nov. 1. This jolting news hit front pages all over the country last week when prim, precise WPB Alcohol Expert Matthew MacNamara revealed that U.S. distillers would be 100% converted to war alcohol within two months. The U.S. needs alcohol for its huge synthetic-rubber program, its booming smokeless powder plants, its busy plastics and chemical factories...
...gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose its flexibility at 70° below zero, thus is useful in high...
...About no alcohol to a minor...
President Conant's appointment to the rubber board, consisting of Bernard Baruch, chairman of the board, and Karl Compton, president of M. I. T., came on the heel of a White House veto of a bill authorizing the manufacture of synthetic rubber from grain alcohol. President Roosevelt established the committee in order to survey the needs and possibilities and make an early recommendation...
...buna program's troubles stemmed from such high considerations. Some plain old-fashioned competitive jealousies were also involved. The refiners had borne the brunt of butadiene research, were miffed because the rubber companies got buna from butadiene on. The chemical companies, scheduled to produce styrene, alcohol and alcohol-butadiene, didn't want to share secrets with the oil companies who had the original know-how. The little rubber companies were sore because they felt the Big Four of Rubber were hogging their end of the program...