Word: soybeans
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...never smokes nor drinks, likes the same old-fashioned dances his boss likes, even likes to eat roasted soybeans, soybean bread, soybean soup. With a soul-deep belief in every Ford dream, Boyer last week was stunned with joy. His chief gave him authority to order a complete set of dies for the first road model of the plastic automobile...
...years, there were arguments hotter than political disputes over the best kind of wheat-Tenmarq, which the State College has pushed, Chiefkan, which farmers found more profitable. In Ohio, with its 255,000 farms (1.03 autos per farm, .66 tractors, .31 trucks), where late spring rains delayed corn and soybean planting, where the corn crop was down by 20,000,000 bushels-there was talk of a new 40-inch combine and of what the weather will be like for next month's delayed harvest...
Actually Henry Agard Wallace is not so much a dirt farmer as a cloud mystic. He is also one of the few mystics who turn their oddities to practical account. He once subsisted for five days on cottonseed meal, soybean oil and cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have...
...motormaker and collector of antiques, Henry Ford looms very large in the U. S. "chemurgic" movement, which explores and promotes industrial use of agricultural products. Example: use of casein, a compound which occurs in milk, to make plastics and fabrics. Another of Mr. Ford's preoccupations is soybeans, which can be grown cheaply almost anywhere, yield oil for automobile lacquers, meal for plastic parts like horn buttons. Incidentally, soybeans are nutritious and soybean preparations figure prominently in Mr. Ford's present diet...
Last week the Ford chemurgic laboratory at Dearborn displayed pride in a promising new fabric from soybean meal -said to be the first textile made from a vegetable protein.* Mr. Ford was presented with a tasteful necktie one-third of which was woven from the soybean fabric, the rest of silk and wool. Protein is extracted from soybean meal in saline solution, then mixed with other chemicals to make a viscous liquid, which is squirted into hair-sized filaments. The spun thread has a pleasant feel, fairly good tensile strength, takes dyes readily. Its intended use: automobile upholstery...