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Hard-drinking U.S. synthetic rubber and smokeless powder plants, which in 1944 downed about 90% of the domestic sugar, grain and molasses alcohol supply, have been searching feverishly for more & more industrial alcohol spigots. Almost equally fervent has been the Pacific Northwest's hunt for new industries with postwar prom ise. Last week, in one happy stroke, the Government got its spigot and the North west its new industry...
...hope came from Washington. Discovering that even Capitol restaurants were out of cigarets, the Senate's Mead Committee met in a smokeless room, decided to send investigators out. And this week the Federal Trade Commission announced it also would investigate the shortage. All over the U.S. the cigaret gags were getting bitter. Sample: "Ask the man who owns...
...women workers back to their homes after the Armistice. (In the last 25 years, he has probably spent $2,500,000 on public service. Once in the '30s, alarmed by U.S. unpreparedness, he offered the Army $3,300,000 to buy machinery to make smokeless powder...
...Keep your powder dry" is a sound military rule; it is also what makes powder manufacturing a risky business. Last week Western Cartridge Co. told of an unorthodox but effective and less hazardous method of making smokeless powder under water...
Under older methods, nitrocellulose (made by treating cotton or wood fibers with nitric and sulfuric acids) is forced through "macaroni" machines, chopped into grains of various sizes. This smokeless powder is necessarily handled dry in many stages of its manufacture, and in large quantities...