Word: pita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...other cordage, the Hemisphere has a wealth of fibers. Chief commercial ones are sisal and henequen, which grow more or less prolifically in Yucatan, Cuba, Haiti, other parts of Latin America. Exotic fibers-caroa, guaxima, papoula de Sao Francisco from Brazil, cabuya from Ecuador, pita and fique from Colombia-might replace jute and hemp if they could be produced and processed in sufficient quantity (which would involve new machinery, labor, transportation...