Practical Distiller
Gets 2nd Call
Making Alcohol
To the far-flung war fronts of
two world wars, this year’s and
the one of twenty-five years ago,
Robert H. Nanz. vice-president
and director of Schenley Distill
ers corporation has helped main
tain a steady flow of the mater
ials the defenders of democracy
need.
Nanz was thus one of those to
whom our involvement in the
war seemed io mean that his
tory’s wheel had once more
swung full cycle.
During the first war. Nanz was
engaged in manufacturing for
munitions vast quantities of ethyl
alcohol. Our entrance into this
I
war found him again making
ethyl alcohol for Americans to
use against their enemies, fori
even before the Jap lunge at our
Pacific outposts, Nanz was super
vising Schenlev’s production of
ethyl alcohol at Lawrenceburg,
Ind„ for government purposes.
Nanz is a good example of:
what a man can do with his life!
under the system of government
Americans have twice in quarter:
century fought to protect.
He was on his own and hard
at work when he was 14 years
old. Husky beyond his years, his;
first job was in the meal room,
of a Kentucky distillery. Save for
two years, he has been in oneI
phase or another of distilling
ever since.
The plants he worked in dur-1
ing the early years read like a
roster of honored distilling nam
es — J. G. Mattingly, Marion
County, Nelson, Anderson, Allen
Bradley, Elk Run. Since that day
in 1900 when he pitched in as a
grain weigher, he has worked in
distillery, .dry house, warehouse,1
bottling department and office.
Even with the advent of pro
hibition and following his asso-l
ciation with the late Harry E.
Wilken in manudeturing mun
itions alcohol during the war, he
spent 11 years in the industrial
alcohol Held, working first for
U. S. Industrial Alcohol corpora
tion and then for Rossville Com
mercial Solvents corporation.
The only time Nanz left the
distilling business was in 1931,
when a group of Louisville banks
hired him to do industrial engin
eering work for them. In 1933,
Schenley hired him as manager
of the plant it was developing in
Lawrenceburg, Ind.
The growth of lhat plant into
; iciory In 1941 :
3 l reduced
V’avp GTON - A predict n
■ -’ ■» -nvd .ifinFo^rintions ; HI
- ' ' . • Cl cd to ooo 000 OQO
' fer a huge exp n ’ m
■•'••‘ion strength ('f the
1 ’ • • ’ ' h t fhot was made by
■ 'i■ r (if the Senate appro
. is aub-commit tee.
Ti > senator sad: “We are giv
ing the navy not only all the
nl i’M's they ask for, but all that
I they can take."
The hi 1 in it* present form calls
' for an outlay of $17,000,000,000
i and air idy is one of the largest
1 anpropriati< :■ m ?a jures ever se( n
! n congress. At present it is to be
; studied by the Senate approria
tions sub-committee.
Navy secretary Frank Knox
predicted to the sub-committee
that the United Nations would
i win the war in 1944. Senator
M ilan! Tydings of Maryland sug
gested that naval contracts pro
! vide for suspension of work in
the event of an end of the war,
to prevent expenditures on naval
contracts after it is over.
lie asked Knox what the pros
pects were for an early victory:
and the Navy secretary replied |
in the words of Winston Church
ill: “1942 is the year of prepar
aton: 1943 the year of attack,
and 1944 the year of glorious vie
.!\ .._
Robert M. Nan/., vice-president
and director of Schenley Distillers i
; corporation, and manager of the
Old Quaker plant at Lawrence- J
burg, Iml. , _4
one of the world’s leading dis
; tilleries, its development of new
; equipment and techniques, and
the strong consumer reliance on
the famous brands it produces
I are a record of Nanz' accomplish
5 ments in the past eight years.
They are also an explanation of
why Schenley has just made this
, “practical distiller” a vice-presi
dent and director.
Nanz’ executive ability and his
' understanding of associates have
made him a leader in community
and civic life as well as in busi
i ness, and lie crowds into his busy
days time to participate in com
, munity undertakings and the
I work of cooperative business
groups. He demonstrated his ab
j ility to act quickly and wisely
during the disasterous Ohio river
! floods in 1937, when he supervis-j
' ed the work of employees in con- j
' verting warehouse space into:
| emergency sleeping and eating |
quarters for hundreds of home
| less flood victims and saw that
| emergency hospital faciities were
; available.
Right now Nanz is fulfilling a
i lifelong ambitiion—to run a farm.
His dreams weren’t those a “gen
1 tleman farmer" would fancy,
j though.
Nanz wanted a "farmers farm.”
He’s just bought one of 265
acres, complete with a land
grant signed by John Quincy
Adams back in the early 1800’s,
and a century-old house sur
i rounded by the rich Indiana
l earth.
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■ p'" ■en'f .ts. The radio set indu«
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a $2.( "".000 military production
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$177,000/00. This was increased
p 1011. The curtailment order ir
b sed on the average monthly
produc’d n f ir the first ninr !
n inths of last year.
PATHS THAT LED TO C RAVE S—Names on the tiny markers scratched out by censors,
these graves of German soldiers killed in the Nazis’ Russian campaign appear somewhere behind the
Gcrman-Russian front which, by the way, has been subject to change because of the Russian offensive
that got under way in mid-November. At rear is a demolished Soviet bunker.
The Japanese Battleship Nupatu
WORKERS IN WAR AGAINST INJURY-! ,cst accidents result in grave loss of time harmful to defense, workmen
don all sorts of protective attire, as did these six in Douglas Aircraft plant at Santa Monica, Cal. To guard his lungs, the spray painter
wears a special nose mask; tiie plant fireman is encased from top to toe in asbestos; wek.er, sandblaster and "cold-room1' research man
wear queer headgear and leather garments; man working on high steel wears crash-proof military helmet to deflect dropping bolts.
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