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...heart of Great Britain's export trade is the Scotch whisky industry; last year it earned $63 million in dollar sales, more than any other single British manufacture.* The heart of the Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual output is siphoned off by big brand-name Scotch distillers, who use it to provide tang, bouquet and flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William...
Last week Smith Grant was winding up his busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen...
Another reliable organization which sponsors work camps is the Finnish National Union of Students. These camps are only of two weeks duration . . of lifting, cutting, and loading peat in Southern Finland. The camps are doubly attractive since Finland is not only noted for its warmly pro-American feelings, which manifest themselves in a variety of pleasant diversions, but also because the Olympic Games are but a short distance away. Literature is free from the USNSA Travel Dept., 48 West 48 St., New York...
...been raining heavily for a day and a half and the field was as muddy as peat bog. Princetonians and their dates eagerly awaited the change in weather that had been forecast. It changed all right--it snowed...
...Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia Park, the two young-old lotus plants are still thriving. But until they are due to bloom, in about five years, Dr. Harding will not know just what sort of lotus grew in the Manchurian peat bog 1,000 years...