Word: castor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news given out to American people (TIME, March 1). So do we! It is true that the American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled kids, but that is the way we are being treated. We are pampered patriots. We are getting a few drops of castor oil in a cup full of political honey...
...Sports of the Times" column. Even then readers may have failed to notice the difference, because Daley's first effort was extremely Kieranesque. In a discussion of the Oregon State and New York City College basketball teams, both called "Beavers," Columnist Daley referred to an Oregon beaver as Castor Ore-goniensis and to a City College beaver as Castor Nova Eboracensis...
With this program U.S. castor oil production should top 150,000,000 Ib. in 1943, equal to the average pre-war annual importation, but not enough to meet increased needs...
Dehydrated castor oil is the best available substitute for tung oil, formerly imported from China for use in inks, paint, varnish, linoleum, lubricants, etc. But" U.S. tung production is growing too. Orchards of tung-nut trees now cover 250,000 acres, scattered from South Carolina to Texas (most are in Mississippi). They have produced 5,000,000 Ib. of oil a year, may double that figure in 1942. But the trees do not produce until after their fourth year, so no quick increase is possible. At least 150,000,000 lb. yearly are needed...
...Thus the castor bean will flourish from Illinois and Indiana to Texas, at least until the China trade is restored. The Rio Grande Valley of Texas has already jumped into production on the basis of four crops per year on each farm. The first commercial castor-oil crushing plant went into operation at Brownsville last spring, ready to process a million pounds of oil this year...