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...announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring and plate glass mirrors had been scrupulously polished. The control room for this $100,000 plant, which had taken six weeks to build and had been in operation only ten days, was located...
...barrel, the same low reached nine months ago before the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the oil fields with militia. Reason for the latest cut: a new proration ruling by Texas increasing the allowable production of the East Texas pool from 400,000 to nearly 800,000 bbl...
...Farm Relief Bill, now before the Senate, looks to a cut in domestic wheat-growing which may set an example at London. Major oil producers met in Washington fortnight ago, recommended action to the White House which would hold the U. S. flow down to 2,000,000 bbl. per day. Many have been the conferences between producers of copper, nitrate and rubber during the last several years in vain attempts to control output, raise prices. At London such attempts may become accomplishments...
...only about 10% over last year: 2,000,000 Ib. more hops, 3,000,000 bu. more barley, 800,000 bu. more corn. Hardly a pinch in a peck of U. S. grain production. The big new grain consumption will come only after beer production exceeds 30,000,000 bbl. a year...
...became one of the dandies of New York, a stalwart of Tammany (eight years in Congress), was made Colonel by New York's Governor. Father & son worked hand in hand. They had a house on Fifth Avenue. In 1913 they built themselves a brand-new 2,000,000-bbl. brewery; they grew to rival Ehret's. Both were good joiners and their popularity made sales. The elder Jake never lived to see Prohibition. He died in 1916. Colonel Jake just before his father's death acquired the New York Yankees which continued to bring in the money...