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Last year U. S. manufacturers consumed 91,166,000 lb. of soybean oil, of which 2,550,000 lb. went into soaps, 4,800,000 lb. into linoleum and oilcloth, 13,000,000 lb. into paints and varnishes...
...example of how economic necessity may point the way to technological research, he neatly remarked that while Germany is trying to turn "waste products of industry into food, the U. S. is trying to divert food to industrial uses (example: Henry Ford compressing soybean meal into automobile parts). The German made a speech on "Problems of Industrial Pioneer Work" in which he told how under modern conditions long years and much money may be required for a new process to carve its place in a national economy...