Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From start to finish, the brew, made in relatively small 630-bbl. batches, is constantly checked for taste and uniformity. As the ground-up barley and rice are boiled, the hops and yeast are added to ferment the beer and give it its characteristic, slightly bitter tang. Both temperature and time must be controlled to the minute. The immense lagering cellars, where the fermentation goes on for 21 days, must be airtight to keep out all airborne bacteria. Finally, Anheuser-Busch treats its beer with a time-honored process that no other major national brewer uses. In glass-lined tanks...
...Turkey and Iran, others in Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side of the world building a 100,000-bbl.-a-day oil refinery in Aden for the Anglo-Iranian...
...runs. ANHEUSERBusch, which opens - its new $15 million Los Angeles brewery (TIME, Oct. 26) this week, is also looking for a bigger share of the Gulf Coast market. It is buying a 150-acre tract at New Orleans, will build a $20 million brewery with a 1,000,000 bbl.-a-year capacity...
INDUSTRY Collusion or Costs? When major oil companies raised the price of crude oil 25? a bbl. last month, and retail price increases for gasoline and home-heating oils followed. New Jersey's Republican Charles A. Wolverton, chairman of the House Committee oh Interstate & Foreign Commerce, let out a yell...
...basin, the oil companies are already spending an estimated $100 million a year. A Standard of Indiana subsidiary is planning a pipeline to Mandan, across the Missouri River from Bismarck, and Standard itself will build a 15,000-bbl-a-day refinery. Amerada will have to put up a multimillion-dollar plant to take natural gasoline out of the gas now being "flared" (i.e., burned) at the well. Enthusiastic businessmen predict that a prairie empire of chemicals and synthetics, rivaling the Gulf Coast's, will rise from these new sources of raw materials. So far, lack of transportation...