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Show RECORD AMOUNT OF GRAIN GOES TO DISTILLERS A Denver distiller stated recently recent-ly that the nation's liquor distillers have been granted 300,000 000 pounds of grain which is more than they used during their greatest great-est year of production before the war. Jay Ambrose, one of the first distillers to advocate a temporary shut-down of the industry as a grain-saving measure, said that such an allocation "must mean that the grain shortage has been overcome." Ambrose said the distillers already al-ready have enough liquors stored away to last four years. He said the new allocation figures fig-ures were announced by President Truman's food committee and that the committee had called the allocation allo-cation a "curb" on the industry. "That much grain, if used in agriculture, would produce 560,-000 560,-000 000 pounds of milk per year, 23,000,000 pounds of meat every month, or 44,000.000 pounds of poultry meat every month." |