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Most sizable of the new crops is hemp, which will be grown this year on 350,000 acres in the midwest. To prepare for the new crop some 35,000 acres of hemp were grown in Kentucky and harvested for seed last year. For processing the hemp into badly needed ships' rope the Department of Agriculture is financing the construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture...
...coffee. Now banana boats are carrying steel ingots across the Atlantic, coffee ships are scattered around the world's oceans (or sunk). Central American Governments have not enough revenue to take care of their unemployed plantation workers and stevedores. Their chief hope is finding work in a big hemp-growing project in Panama and Costa Rica started by United Fruit Co. By 1943, 20,000 acres of abandoned banana lands will be planted in hemp with 20,000 additional acres ready...
...savage coastal jungles there are many wild rubber trees. In the remote mountains and inland plains grows the cinchona tree (quinine); there grow also fique, pita and malba, all tough fibrous plants. With Colombia's aid the U.S. may replace some of the rubber, quinine and hemp lost to the United Nations in the Far East...
...managed to obtain German maps, timetables. From gift boxes he assembled a suit of civilian clothes.* As to the actual escape, stories differed. One version said that for months, when the General and his fellow prisoners were given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed by Vichy to the General himself, was that his wife had sent him lengths of thread in every gift package, and these he had woven into rope...
...that program sounds impossible, CCC can point out that having no rope for the U.S. Navy (which normally scorns U.S. hemp) is still more unthinkable...