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Liquor stills normally use neither cane syrup nor molasses; they use grain (mostly corn). This is plentiful, but expensive. To make alcohol profitable for the distillers, OPA last month raised the price ceiling from 24½? to 50? a gal...
...last week ordered U.S. distillers to stop making neutral spirits for beverages on Jan. 15, start running off industrial alcohol. In a shooting war, when every 16-in. gun blast burns up 60 gal. of alcohol in its powder, the U.S. needs alcohol more than liquor...
...drinkers need not worry yet. U.S. distillers have over 500,000,000 gal. of whiskey in warehouses, four years' supply. Furthermore, though forbidden to make neutral spirits for gin and "blends," distillers can still make 100,000,000 gal. of straight whiskey in 1942, about three-quarters of total 1941 output...
...liquor companies have already helped the regular industrial alcohol makers by taking contracts for 76,000,000 gal.* of alcohol for powder (TIME, Oct. 13). Now they will make another 114,000,000 gal., boost total U.S. industrial alcohol output to around 500,000,000 gal., the highest ever. Unless Army & Navy consumption of powder exceeds all estimates, the distillers alone will soon make enough alcohol to slake the thirst of the guns. Then the regular industrial alcohol makers can go back to their normal customers (plastics, paints, chemicals...
There's another school of thought among the lassies which figures that it's going to be a long war and a gal might as well catch herself a husband and start to produce the army of 1963. But my dear, one simply cannot marry a man making only twenty-one dollars a month. That's not even undic money. It's silly even to dance with them; no future in it. And yet all there is left, unless she knows a handsome ensign, is the 4F Club. Brrr. What a plight for the womanhood of America. Should they starve...