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Even in the depths of Repeal, canned Sterno and bay rum as thirst quenchers appealed to only a few U. S. citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
...ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts around their necks and liked our alcohol distilled from hair tonic or drained from Sterno. Our few healthy moments were spent at "Sunny Side...
...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 and its by-products are used for solvents, lacquers, fertilizers. Industrial Alcohol works hand-in-hand with Air Reduction, the two companies having recently joined their research departments. Air Reduction controls Pure Carbonic Co. of America in which Alcohol...
...load ring from which are suspended a series of cables holding the basket; the basket much resembles a housewife's market basket- only much bigger, some 3% feet high, 3 feet wide and 3% feet long. In the basket are ballast, instruments, warm clothing, food, water, coffee, sterno. The balloonists are comfortable, though slightly cramped for long flights...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11 Mr. Copeland will give his second reading from the "Wits and Humorists," and in particular form the works of Sterno, Smollett and Dickens. His selections will be from "Tristram Shandy," "The Sentimental Journey," "Pickwick Papers," and "David Copperfield." The reading will be open only to members of the University...