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Slash pine for paper, Tung oil for varnishes, soy beans for oils and plastics were all mentioned; but the big new proposed market-which might pull us out of the Depression, as did the automobile in 1920-21-is power alcohol...
...Soy Beans. The soy bean, seed of an Asiatic herb, is the main crop of Manchuria, a staple food for Chinese and Japanese. In the U. S. some 3,000,000 acres were planted to soy beans last year. Most of the U. S. crop goes into forage. But some is made into sauce for chop suey, some into cooking oil, some into bread for diabetics. Henry Ford's chemist, R. H. McCarroll, foreseeing industrial uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean...
...Soy Beans & Babies. To Dr. Willard Myron Allen, 30, serious, bespectacled chemist of the University of Rochester, Eli Lilly & Co. gave $1,000 for isolating the female hormone, progestin. Progestin is essential for the creation of perfect children. Since Dr. Allen showed the way, women who lack progestin can buy it from druggists. Manufacturers get their supplies from the ovaries of pigs. Last week Dr. Allen retailed the important news, fresh from Danzig, that Dr. Adolph Butenandt had discovered a way of making progestin from the wax of soy beans...
...Japan of Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and Southern Manchuria including Port Arthur. When Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to disgorge all her spoils except Formosa and the Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame. He had been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been...
Tung oil (also called "wood oil") is used, in addition to paints and varnishes, for insulation and for waterproofing. The U. S. oil is selling at about 10? per Ib. against 6? for imported oil. The imported oil is of inferior quality, generally adulterated with soy bean oil. Two years ago the price of imported oil was 14-15?. There are only 3,500 acres in the U. S. in production now. When the 25,000 acres now planted are in full bearing they should yield 50,000,000 Ib. against normal imports of twice that much...