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...bought and it had to be shipped. There had to be wool belly-bands for troops in the tropics, fur for Arctic troops, plenty of woolens for the British Isles. There had to be food for all in the style to which U.S. soldiers are accustomed -and lemon extract had to get to Anchorage and Eritrea on schedule, along with the lumber for barracks and gasoline for the mess stoves...
...Angeles, Nelson J. Hansen, geologist, teamed up with Dr. Carl Omeron, dentist, to extract rubber from the red-flowered poinsettia...
...recent years, the Russians have begun to extract oil from Cambrian rock, imbedded in thousands of square miles of Siberia. They also have regular oil wells in the Urals and east of the Volga. From these sources, Russia, according to Hindus, got 5,500,000 tons of oil in 1938-more than Germany is getting from all its synthetic plants...
Rhubarb is the only "fruit" available in large quantities. About once every three months a ship arrives with a few hundred crates of oranges, but these go straight to the nurseries. Britons flavor their smoked salmon with weak, artificial lemon extract...
Present tin cans are about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...