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Show HIGHLIGHTS the iceek's news LIQUOR: The 31 day "holiday" from manufacturing industrial alcohol alco-hol for war purposes that the WPB has granted distillers during August is being utilized by 121 companies to make whiskey. Eight other companies com-panies will continue using their full capacity to make industrial alcohol. The others have converted 50 per cent or less of their facilities to manufacture man-ufacture of beverage alcohol. BRIDGE FALLS: The central span of a steel bridge across the Mississippi Missis-sippi at Chester, 111., has fallen into the channel, blocking water traffic. : The bridge sec'on is 650 feet long ! and 90 feet high. It was dislodged apparently by high winds. I PLANES TO RUSSIA: More than I 10,000 American planes have been sent to Russia under lend-lease ar-. ar-. rangements since October, 1941. |