Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page-one cartoon, the Tribune dramatized its own nobility. Around a forthright central figure curiously reminiscent of a Johnnie Walker whiskey ad revolved the Tribune's detractors in their ugliest guise: Spiders H. V. Kaltenborn and Walter Winchell with microphones; Moths Marshall Field and Frank Knox; Skunk Harold Ickes; cigaret-smoking Hen Dorothy Thompson; a lean crow representing the New York Herald Tribune, which dared recently to comment on some of the Chicago Tribune's antics...
...Oathy, whiskey-swigging Andrew Jackson (Brian Donlevy), seventh President of the U.S., turns up in Shale City, Colo, to pay a debt of gratitude to the great-grandson of the man who saved his life at the Battle of New Orleans. The great-grandson, William Holden, an honest young municipal bookkeeper, needs help. His politico bosses are about to jail him for discovering that they have rigged the city books to cover their thefts...
...howling for alcohol from corn or wheat instead-though that bloc also objects to letting Commodity Credit Corp. sell its grain stocks below parity (which makes grain alcohol cost more than sugar alcohol). This proposal runs smack into trouble from the industrial alcohol industry because only 40% of the whiskey distillers are equipped to make 190-proof alcohol. The other 60% can make only 140-proof, which would then have to be raised to 190 by the industrial alcohol producers, who much prefer their present, more profitable, sugar-into-alcohol conversion. The proposal also runs into the internal revenue laws...
...whiskey industry is in a peculiar position. Although the producers of alcoholic beverages are big sugar consumers, commercial alcohol corporations, like U. S. Industrial Alcohol and Commercial Solvents, are causing the real trouble. These corporations, conveniently represented at Washington by Frazer M. Moffat, formerly of U. S. Industrial Alcohol, and now chief of WPB's Alcohol Unit, are trying to monopolize the production of alcohol for explosives. But their plants cannot be adapted for distilling from grains. They use blackstrap sugar, and invert molasses as their raw products. And these maximum sugar demands have caused 1,300,000,000 tons...
Powerful industrial sugar consumers with influence in Washington have brought the nation to the verge of sugar rationing. The hoards of the soft drink, chewing gum, and commercial whiskey industries should be poured on the market before this happens. In sugar rationing, as in automobile production, rubber, and aluminum the business as usual crowd is hard at work losing...