Word: castor
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...scientific farm search for critical materials, castor beans will be a major U.S. crop in 1943, with 750,000 acres planted. The U.S. Department of Agriculture should have 4,000,000 Ib. of seed beans ready for distribution, harvested this year from 8,000 acres in eight states...
...Castor oil was placed under complete allocation control today by the Director General for Operations in order...
...Note to Youngsters: In spite of the fact that the order places no restriction on the consumption of castor oil for medicinal purposes, Ernest Kanzler, Director General for Operations, may, at his discretion, issue special directions to any person regarding the use of any castor...
...annual consumption is well over 100,000,000 lb. and there are no substitutes for it, not even soybean, castor or other oils, however processed. The versatile tung provides the fastest vegetable oil paint and varnish dryer. It gives to paints a tough, elastic, heat-resisting surface. It waterproofs paints and varnishes, printing inks, electrical insulation, brakebands, linoleum. It resists acids and is therefore a good interior coating for citrus fruit cans. So important is the oil that it is deliverable in the trade only on A-2 priority orders...
...Questura and Mussolini's Informatori Privati del Duce ruthlessly tracked down secret agents and saboteurs. But they were handicapped by a wartime shortage of castor oil and by the people's sullen resentment. Trains, particularly those carrying German troops, were wrecked more often than authorities admitted. The Germans were everywhere, openly bragging that Italy was under their full control. But German officers and their women were stoned in Sicily...