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Some 2,800 stockholders in two lately obscure U.S. corporations are about to be inundated with 255,000 bbl. of rye and Kentucky bourbon. That is 12,240,000 gal., or 48,960,000 quarts, or 61,200,000 fifths of Christmas cheer. The cheer...
Since whiskey has gone to war, there is a perpetual shortage, with any scotch or rye that finds its way into the stores being quickly bought up by the thirsty public, and the situation shows no signs of imminent improvement...
...farmers invented rye and bourbon whiskey because by the time Midwesterners could get their corn to the Eastern markets the horses that carried it would have had to eat it all up. A Kentucky ironmaster named William Kelly discovered the blast furnace by accident when he let a blast of air pass through his molten iron; even his young wife was so skeptical of the process (he correctly insisted that cold air raises the temperature of molten metal) that she had his head examined...
...Feed, outside the corn belt, is scarce and high-priced. With cheap corn being held back by corn-belt farmers to use in the more profitable fattening of hogs, dairymen must scramble for the diminishing stocks of oats and rye. Therefore feed prices have soared to $57 a ton (v. $48 a year ago), and eastern feed bins are almost empty...
...with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm, the peasants emptied...