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Wilken. Schenley Distillers Corp. already has a cheap, fas selling straight whiskey in Old Quaker. Seeking a companion blended whiskey to popularize, Schenley consulted Harry E. Wilken, chief distiller for Joseph S. Finch & Co., a Schenley subsidiary at Schenley, Pa. Distiller Wilken produced a formula for a blend of four-year-old whiskey, 16-month whiskey, and neutral spirits (alcohol and water). Last week it was launched as The Wilken Family Blended Whiskey, along with an advertising campaign designed to endear Distiller Wilken & family to the whiskey-drinking public...
Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
...billion, six hundred million gallons of 199 proof anhydrous alcohol would be needed to make a 10% blend with the approximate 16,000,000,000 annual U. S. gasoline consumption. That this would relieve the problem of the agricultural surplus is indicated by the fact that to make it would consume all of the wheat raised in the U. S.; or on the other hand all of the oats, barley, rye and white potatoes; or on the other hand from one-third to one-half of the corn...
...House of Gurney, of Yankton, operating 500 filling stations over five western States, has pioneered with a. 2 ½% alcohol, 97 % gasoline blend, selling at the same price as the ordinary gas. . . . I have used it entirely since February, without any carburetor adjustments. It gives a sweet running motor. The alcohol has splendid antiknock properties. By keeping the engine carbon free it permits the use of third run gasoline, hence giving greater mileage...
...South Dakota legislature, lately adjourned, enacted a law permitting the blend to be sold in the State as legal gas; the Nebraska legislature has relieved the alcohol content of a blend from payment of the State gasoline...