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Because a single rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a stiff cocktail and more than four gallons go into making a single synthetic tire, the U.S. will use 476,000,000 gallons of commercial alcohol next year, four times any pre-war year. Most of this huge increase will be met by the liquor makers, who have an estimated capacity of 435,000,000 gallons annually. If things go as planned, the liquor industry will supply the newly developed war alcohol market (rubber and powder) and regular alcohol producers will handle the ordinary market (plastics, lacquers, chemicals, anti...
...raiders destroyed three radio stations, 1,000 gallons of gasoline, many trucks and other military stores. They also found many a record of pre-war U.S. policy: the trucks had been made in the U.S., the gasoline containers bore the trade-mark of a U.S. refiner, the Jap garrison's corned beef had a U.S. label on the cans. Makin after the raid looked better to Colonel Carlson. Said he: "It was a sight to see. There were dead Japs all over the place...
...Europe such wood burners have long been used on trucks, busses, tractors. In pre-war Germany, France and Italy they consumed 450 million pounds of wood a year, the equivalent of about 18 million gallons of gasoline. It takes some 25 pounds of wood to do the work of a gallon (about six pounds) of gasoline...
Last week London publishers' sales of printed music had risen 40 to 60% above the pre-war normal. A sentimental, serious ballad, I'll Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic...
...crowds, are daily lunchtime concerts at the Royal Exchange in the heart of London's Wall Street, and Sunday afternoon Celebrity Concerts (orchestra plus noted soloists) at the Cambridge Theater. The Londoners' summer standby, the orchestral Promenade Concerts, have drawn 200,000 admissions, double the "Proms' " pre-war normal...