Word: tallow
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...want of slaughtered livestock, soapmakers lacked tallow and grease to keep up their three billion pounds a year production. Many would have to shut down. For want of soap, laundries all over the country had to reduce their laundering; millions of housewives did the same; wool producers (to whom soap is a major necessity) lamented: "No woolens." For want of glycerine, a by-product of animal fats, General Electric could not get the lacquer it needed to finish thousands of refrigerators. For want of industrial soap and stearic acid, all synthetic rubber production in Akron was expected to drop sharply...
...cost of the strike was incalculable. Such badly needed imports as copra, rubber, tin, tung oil, hemp, lead, wool, coffee, tallow and hides were cut off. Almost half a million men were out of work...
Americans will soon have dirty faces and hands to go with their meatless tables. As the slaughtering of livestock declines, so falls the supply of tallow, a basic ingredient of soap. Last week Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest soapmakers, predicted that the soap shortage in the U.S. will soon be worse than during...
...much as they sold in Latin America. Now they need coffee, cotton, hides and linseed oil. So far they had managed to buy just one cargo of linseed from the Uruguayans and a second, through UNRRA, in Argentina. They had also purchased several thousand tons of fat and tallow, 500 tons of bacon, 500 tons of ham. But Soviet-Argentine trade was about as bustling as trade between Luxembourg and Andorra...
Bjartur's children get no coddling: "I had boiled fish and tallow and cod-liver oil in my sucking-bag before I was a year old, and throve well on it." Food is scarce; winters are cold...