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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...
...such official announcements, is diplomatic pressure by the U. S. in Canada. Last week the State Department announced that revision of the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty of 1924 was under negotiation-an announcement meaning that U. S. Minister William Phillips had finished negotiating; that a conference to calk the U. S.-Canadian border more tightly against liquor will probably be held next month...
Botanical Club. Papers: Notes on Uroglaena Americana, Calk. Mr. G. T. Moore.- Remarks on Some New or Rare Mexican Plants. Mr. J. M. Greenman. Botanical Museum, Room...
Botanical Club. Papers: Notes on Uroglaena Americana, Calk. Mr. G. T. Moore.- Remarks on Some New or Rare Mexican Plants. Mr. J. M. Greenman. Botanical Museum, Room...