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...whiskey industry is in a peculiar position. Although the producers of alcoholic beverages are big sugar consumers, commercial alcohol corporations, like U. S. Industrial Alcohol and Commercial Solvents, are causing the real trouble. These corporations, conveniently represented at Washington by Frazer M. Moffat, formerly of U. S. Industrial Alcohol, and now chief of WPB's Alcohol Unit, are trying to monopolize the production of alcohol for explosives. But their plants cannot be adapted for distilling from grains. They use blackstrap sugar, and invert molasses as their raw products. And these maximum sugar demands have caused 1,300,000,000 tons...
...edged out his brother's Principles of Psychology for 13th place, and Lenin's Imperialism; the State and Revolution nosed out his master Marx's Das Kapital. Also rans: Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought; Tolstoy's What...
...Joseph Washington Frazer, Willys-Overland Motors president, invited the dealers to become manufacturers. Frazer, swamped with $142,000,000 in war orders (Willys' 1940 sales: $14,557,000), needs and wants subcontractors. So he sent out over 40,000 questionnaires to dealers asking for details on their tools, floor space and manpower. When he gets his answers Frazer will have something no one else has: data on the manufacturing capacities of auto-repair equipment...
...eleven: Ford's R. I. Roberge, General Motors' Donaldson Brown, Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, Studebaker's Paul G. Hoffman, Willys-Overland's J. W. Frazer, Nash-Kelvinator's George Mason, Hudson's A. E. Barit, International Harvester's W. F. McAfee, Diamond T Motor's E. J. Bush, White's Robert Black, Autocar's Robert P. Page...
...wrote this about 1890, lived long enough to see spurts of flame, among hollow murmurs, crumble Cambridge and all of Britain. A few hours after Sir James's death, by some curious magic, died frail, humorous, French-born Lady Frazer...