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...Duke's idea. The 67,000 citizens of his island kingdom were getting along O.K. until the war knocked the spots out of the lush tourist business (main support of the population), marine parasites crippled the sponge trade, blue-grey flies ruined the citrus trees. One by one the islanders lost their jobs. There was depression. So the Duke set up the Economic Investigation Committee, set out after bigger & better industry for his Bahamas...
...nation's five-million-pound annual production of dried vegetables. Now U.S. plants can produce each year 15 million pounds of dried vegetables, 285 million pounds of dried eggs, more than 170 million pounds of dry skim milk, eight million pounds of waterless soup, unmeasured amounts of citrus concentrate. There are 82 egg-drying plants, mostly in the Midwest and Southwest (in 1940 there were...
...meal served in a plant should contribute at least one-third of the worker's daily food requirements, which are: at least one pint of milk; two helpings of potatoes; two helpings of fruit, one a citrus fruit or tomato; two vegetables, one leafy, green or yellow; one egg; one helping of meat, fish or poultry; a cereal dish (whole grain); whole-grain or enriched white bread at every meal; and butter or fortified oleomargarine...
...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...
...citrus-fruit substitute, sold for several shillings, consists of diluted citric acid worth a few pence...