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...possession of the premises. "I'm the receiver," announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring and plate glass mirrors had been scrupulously polished. The control room for this $100,000 plant, which had taken six weeks to build and had been...
...County Commissioners' auditorium, crammed to the doors, spokesmen argued themselves hoarse for more cash and food relief, free light and water, 5,000 gal. of gasoline for a motor march on the State Capitol at Olympia. Just as hoarsely the Commissioners argued the impossibility of granting their demands...
...total consumption of motor fuel in 1929 amounted to 409,240,000 bbl. of 42 gal. each. This quantity would require [a blend] of 20,000,000 bbl. of alcohol, obtainable, on a rough estimate, from about 40,000,000 tons of farm products or byproducts, damaged crops which at an average cost of say about $10 per ton would yield the farmers in this country about...
...Fairey-Napier. But it was equipped with improvements learned from the previous experiences. A "robot" steering device was installed. Running gear was made double-strong for rough landings. A cabin hatch was cut for observations of the stars. Fuel tanks were built to hold 1,000 gal. In the cabin was a bed for the pilot off watch. Experts spent months in plotting the course for favorable topography and weather...
...Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...