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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rum Rush | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...gal. cane syrup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists in Chicago | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...State deposits its ratification of the 21st Amendment with the Secretary of State, the National Recovery Act requires the President to proclaim the date of Repeal. Much depends on whether that date is before or after Jan.1. If it is before, the gasoline tax drops back to 1? per gal. and the dividend tax becomes void as of Jan.1. If it is after, these taxes continue to operate throughout the calendar year of 1934 despite the fact that liquor taxes will also be collected during this period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Repeal, Capital Stock & Profits | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Major J. Nelson Kelly, manager of the field, who with his wife and Pilot George Haldeman followed the plane in an automobile after its start up the runway, said later that he felt sure de Pinedo would stop after his overladen ship, reeling drunkenly under 1,030 gal. of gasoline, veered almost off the concrete as it got up to 80 m.p.h. But the man in the cabin was obsessed. He straightened the Santa Lucia and roared ahead. He lifted the tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: End of de Pinedo | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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