Word: calking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China has used tung oil for centuries in her lacquer, to finish paper, to calk ships. The glossy appearance of Chinese junks is given by tung oil, applied raw. China consumes 40% of its tung oil production. Hankow is the biggest tung oil port and the Hankow quotations are read by paint men throughout the world. Its industry boomed in the 1920's parallel with the U. S. building boom. The producing area for the Hankow supply is up the Yangtze River beyond the famed gorges in Szechwan Province next to Tibet. The big city in the area...