Word: beeswax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardwood; 19,718,000,000 gallons of gasoline; 16,000,000 Ibs. of wool; 6,300,000 lbs. of mohair; 256,000 cattle hides; 590,000 tons of sugar cane; 1,115,000 bushels of corn; 4,828,200 lbs. of turpentine; 18,590 lbs. of beeswax; 36,000 hogs. The oil industry, most extraordinary and dramatic of them all, with the pumps slowly chugging in the exhausted fields of Pennsylvania, with the wells sinking two miles deep in California and Louisiana, with rigs floating in barges penetrating the mud of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with...
Jefferson used to be the first city in Texas. Standing on the shore of Big Cypress Bayou, 20 miles from the Louisiana line, busy Jefferson shipped cotton, flour, pork, wool, hides, beeves and beeswax over the then navigable bayou waters to Caddo Lake, thence down the Red River to the Mississippi, New Orleans and the sea. During Reconstruction and after, Jefferson sheltered some 35,000 folk, their bustling business centring around the city's slave-built courthouse and its mile of docks...
...seven generations the Hidalgos have been encausticists. Several Catholic churches in Mexico own today wax figures molded by Luis Hidalgo's great-great-grandfather. Luis Hidalgo uses no molds, carves directly in blocks of beeswax without any preliminary studies, guards a secret process that enables the figures, once carved, to resist a heat of 110° Fahrenheit without melting. All that he will say about it is that it is a mixture of four acids...
...Before carnauba wax was first used commercially about 50 years ago beeswax was used for polishes. Today most beeswax goes into Catholic altar candles, which must be at least 51% beeswax to meet an old Church law based on the supposed virginity of bees. No such rule governs votive candles, sold in great numbers to the faithful. These may be made of ordinary stearic acid and paraffin...
...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...