Word: mashing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...skimped in making cordite, with the result that, in a naval engagement off South Africa, British shells glumphed dismally into the water a few yards from the guns. Then it was learned that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the great Zionist, had obtained acetone as a fermentation product in corn mash. After that with huge corn supplies in the U. S. and Canada, British cordite makers got along better...
Supporting Uncle Dave in the Grand Ol' Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...