We had about five guys, and each one would drive one day each week. They used grain alcohol to make the butadiene for synthetic rubber. Synthetic alcohol was better, because it didn't have the impurities. Synthetic alcohol was 50 cents a gallon. But a congressman in the agriculture lobby slipped it into this bill that you had to use grain alcohol to make butadiene.
Grain alcohol is made from corn, so that's the agriculture thing.
They'd bring in trainloads of grain alcohol from all the big distillers that made whiskey. They didn't want operators stealing any of it. They kept a lock on the valves. I knew a fellow who carried a hot-water bottle under his belt. If he got a good chance, he'd fill it.