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ALCOHOL FROM WHEAT.
Use in Rubber Manufacture.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-The
Secretary for Agriculture (Mr Claude
R. Wickard), testifying before the
Senate Agriculture Sub-Committee
on Friday, suggested the conversion
of 80,000,000 bushels of wheat into
alcohol for synthetic rubber manu
facture.
Mr Wickard said that thousands of
bushels of wheat would be lost be
cause of lack of suitable storage un
less it was used quickly, and declared
that a process for converting alcohol
to Butandlene had been technically
established.
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