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...York citizens more than ordinarily interested last week in their State's struggle before the U. S. Supreme Court to enlarge the city's water supply by tapping the distant Delaware River. At present the city pipes most of its water 100 mi. down from the Ashokan (130-billion-gal.) and the Schoharie (20-billion-gal.) reservoirs in the Catskill mountains. Other big reservoirs (Croton, Kensico) nearer the city supplement this supply. Four years ago the city administration authorized a $275,000,000 program whereby the headwaters of the Delaware, all within New York State, would contribute materially...
Spring brought grave storm warnings to the industrial alcohol industry. On Nov. 1 stocks of alcohol on hand were below the previous year, standing at a comfortable 16,750,000 gal. A warm winter plus Depression caused a change in this situation. At the start of last week stocks of alcohol according to the Journal of Commerce were estimated to have mounted to between 60,000,000 and 80,000,000 gal. But this was not the industry's only storm signal. Alcohol (unless made synthetically) comes from molasses. It takes two and seven-tenths gallons of molasses plus...
Industrial alcohol is produced under supervision of the Government. Total U. S. production for last year was limited to 81,000,000 gal. by the Federal Prohibition Commissioner. United States Industrial Alcohol has a 40,000,000-gal. capacity, but its share of the industry's total production was only about 38%, or 30,000,000 gal. The company makes some products for the retail trade, such as Alcorub, a massage, Alcogas for gasoline engines, Pyro for radiators. It also controls Sterno Corp., heat canners. Its biggest customers are in the automobile and chemical industries, where alcohol...
...Reitinger, native who had made his fortune in the U. S., told the official village announcer to go about with his drum, invite the whole village to the local public house for free drinks, free music. Joseph Reitinger paid for 3 bbl. of wine, 2 bbl. of beer, 7 gal. of spirits. Next night he wished to do the same thing. Officials banned the party: they had been obliged to break up 17 fights...
Figures released last week indicated that more than 84,000,000 gal. of denatured alcohol were used industrially in the U. S. last year. Biggest consumers were manufacturers of lacquers, lacquer thinner, solvents (12,583,943 gal.). In the manufacture of nitrocellulose 10,461,860 gal. were used. More than 9,000,000 gal: went into vinegar, more than 7,000,000 gal. into ethyl acetate (necessary for dye-stuffs...