Word: soy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three miles north of Grinnell, Iowa, where he went to attend his college class reunion. On a neighboring farm he had worked as a hand when a boy. Before returning to Washington, he went out to look over his new crops (69 acres corn, 32 acres oats, ten acres soy beans). Said he: "Farmers have for the first time in history become conscious of their relationship to the Government through direct contact with it and help from...
...Another entrant in the field is Henry Ford, who makes his own distributor housings, gearshift knobs and other accessories from soy-beans...
...diet limited to soybeans is not fed to livestock because it makes them too fat. But farmers can feed them the meal left over after the oil has been extracted. Silage made from soy plants mixed with cornstalks produces more milk, more meat than straight corn silage. For overworked soil, nitrogenous soy plants are a good builder-up. A green crop of them plowed under will often increase the yield of wheat 6 bu. per acre...
Henry Ford began investigating the beans in 1930, spent more than $1,000,000 in the next few years growing them, finding out how they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...
...conference itself was conspicuous for its lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations...