Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effective. Gin can be made in a day. Whiskey takes years. But a gallon of aged whiskey, cut with water, alcohol and flavoring, makes ten gallons of potable blended whiskey. That is how, in various degrees, U. S. distillers intend to make their present stocks of 21,000,000 gal. go around. One-third of all whiskey in the U. S. is in Pennsylvania warehouses. Four-fifths of Schenley Distillers' precious 5,000,000 gal. are there. National Distillers has 2.000,000 gal. impounded. Until they pay Governor Pinchot some $14,000,000 cash they cannot touch it. Every...
...liquor business was the whiskey business. In 1913 the U. S. drank 135,000,000 gal. of rye and Bourbon, 5,000,000 gal. of gin, 1,500,000 gal. of Scotch, a trickle of Irish. Rum, wine, brandy, liqueurs cut no figure. The Prohibition liquor business was an alcohol business and liquor consumption rose to at least 200,000,000 gal. a year. No one knows how much the U. S. taste has changed in the era of cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least 200,000,000 gal...
...President Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp. took command of a hodge-podge of subsidiaries that made alcohol, yeast and maraschino cherries. He had a fair share of the dwindling medicinal liquor business and 9,000,000 gal. of fine old whiskey which belonged to people who had bought the warehouse receipts. He sold some of the subsidiaries, paid off $11,000,000 of debts, bought back most of his whiskey. But around his clubs when asked about his whiskey business, Seton Porter usually made a sour face, and did a quiet but extraordinarily able job of corporate management...
...gal. cane syrup...
...accumulated indicates that pantothenic acid's molecule is composed of long chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, that it contains no sulphur or nitrogen. The stuff is potent. A speck of Professor Williams' latest pantothenic acid, extracted from liver, speeds the growth of yeast in 250 gal. of liquid...