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Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...under sponsorship of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, Chicago's First National. With each concert, the bankers will give what they consider an instructive talk. Beside the metropolitan giants, other banks in Des Moines, Detroit Cincinnati, other cities, will help pay for propaganda, Poet & Peasant and Fin gal's Cave...
...liquor business, overproduction really means not just overproduction but more overproduction than seems advisable. From Repeal to June 30, 1934, total U. S. production of whiskey was 62,352,666 proof gal. while only 18,875,964 gal. were consumed. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, production was 149,112,923 gal., consumption 50,780,940 gal. In the six months ending December 31, 1935, production was 96,363,859, consumption 36,242,929. Any other industry which deliberately produced three times as much as it sold-and went on doing it for two and a half years...
Among liquor men the conviction has lately grown that whiskey's necessary overproduction has reached its limit. With an all-time record output of 22,000,000 gal. in May, U. S. whiskey stocks for the first time mounted above the pre-Prohibition peak to a total of 281,208,000 gal. At the same time, withdrawals of whiskey for consumption declined 5,390,000 gal. in April to 4,760,000 gal. in May. At this rate, total whiskey reserves at the end of 1936 might be as high as 380,000,000 gal...
...section of the Los Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...