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...identifying its function. In the camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm group...
...solve the U.S. tin shortage. Though the U.S. has "a sizable stockpile," Batt pointed out, it can look forward to no more than 18,000 tons a year from Bolivia-about one-fifth of the nation's normal peacetime consumption. Ergo, said Batt, "glass and fiber containers are going to have to replace tin to a large extent for civilian...
...Washington's tax collector announced that all brass dog-license plates would have to be turned in this year before new ones-of fiber-were issued...
...henequen, sisal, and every other known western fiber but sansevieria, which grows wild in Cuba, lack the resistance to salt water that makes abacá a naval necessity. Moreover, while it takes only four months to get a usable hemp crop, it takes three years to produce sisal, five to seven years for henequen. And low world prices for jute and abacá have kept Hemisphere acreage...
...then lure more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be trained to staff them...