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Show STOCK OF GLYCERINE SHORT. Manufacture of High Explosives May Be Brought to Standstill.1 Chicago. The Western Nitroglycerine Nitroglycer-ine Manufacturers' association met here Monday to attempt to devise some means of increasing the production produc-tion of glycerine, an essential element ele-ment in all high explosives. Members said the war was necessitating the use of so much glycerine that the entire en-tire supply in the United States would he exhausted within ninety days. They discussed plans for pooling the supply. If glycerine is exhausted it will not only have an important effect on the war, speakers said, but much work, including oil development, will be brought to a dead stop. "No explosive but nitroglycerine has the shattering effect necessary for shooting oil wells," said Albert Oppenheim of a Marietta company. |