Word: ethanol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their new accusations. They discovered that many a manufacturer of paints, varnishes, lacquers and disinfectants sells his products to customers who have nothing to paint or varnish, nothing to disinfect. By a process of distillation these bootlegging consumers remove the denaturant elements from the goods they purchase, extract drinkable ethanol (grain alcohol). Included in the charges were manufacturers of industrial alcohol as well as those manufacturers who use the alcohol as a solvent. U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., biggest producer in the U. S.,and Glidden Co., Cleveland's prolific paint and varnish makers, were among those indicted...
...observers have sighted another cloud in the distance. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. has successfully made various types of alcohol by synthesis of the elements instead of fermentation. In Carbide's annual report last fortnight shareholders read: "The first large commercial plant ever built for the synthetic production of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) was put in operation in the summer of 1930, and the results as to capacity, yields, costs of manufacture and quality of product were more favorable than estimated...