Word: ethyle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it will be eighth largest U. S. industrial alcohol concern. Yet industrial alcohol, with more than 400 separate uses, from the ethylene of the obstetrician to the embalming fluid of the undertaker, is one of the necessities of modern existence. Into each life some industrial alcohol must fall. Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl. There are three general kinds of alcohol-ethyl, methyl and amyl. Ethyl alcohol is grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl...
...ravages of wood (methyl) alcohol. A 'legger selling this poison as a beverage will go to jail for one year the first time, for two to five years thereafter. Now to stay within the State law, New York 'leggers must deal strictly in the kind of alcohol (ethyl) prohibited...
...chemical names for wood alcohol and grain ("pure") alcohol are methyl and ethyl respectively. Beverages, being luxuries, are scarcely ever duty-free. But industrialists demand a duty-free alcohol for commercial purposes. Wood alcohol was devised to meet this need. It is simply denaturized "pure" alcohol. Denaturization means the addition of a substance which renders the original unwholesome. The wood-spirit and other substances used in the making of wood alcohol are poisonous. Hearty drinkers of wood alcohol are killed by paralysis of the nervous system...
...soloists who will appear with the combined clubs will be Ethyl Hayden, soprane, and Tuder Davies, tenor. Paul Leyssac of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City, will perform the part of the narrator, a part similar to the narrator in "Oedipus...
...soloists who will appear with the combined clubs will be Ethyl Hayden, soprano, and Tudor Davies, tenor. The narrator, who takes a part similar to that in "Oedipus Rex" will be Paul Leyssac of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, who was the narrator in M. Koussevirzky's production of that opera oratorio...