Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Schwengel's plan, which had the industry's blessing, sounded dazzlingly simple, and fine for the U.S. stomach, which has lately been assaulted by more & more rotgut.* The plan: that U.S. distillers should buy 50,000,000 gallons of Cuban cane alcohol at 80? a gal. They would resell this to the Government at 50? a gal. in exchange for permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least...
...Last week, after weeks of cogitation, OPA forbade liquor dealers to use the word "gin" for the new cane-base, shellac-scented cocktail base now pouring into the U.S. from the Caribbean. The official, denatured title from now on: "Distilled spirits made from cane products and favored with aromatics...
...riots in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, never got a scratch. In London a bomb passed through his apartment down to the basement; there were no casualities. No Pulitzer or other prize has ever come to him. Says he: "But once I won a Kewpie doll, throwing rings around a cane at Berlin's Luna Park...
...American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists' was jubilant. Thanks to the seed-splitting dis covery, beet growing would be largely mechanized in 1944. The beet-sugar pro duction quota had been upped 50%. One big beet man exulted: "The beet-sugar industry will soon compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts...
...Bainer's seed splitting enables the beet to compete honestly with cane, it may have a drastic effect on the entire economy of some cane-producing countries...