Word: tapioca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once call Singapore and the Indies his own, he can feed on the Indies-its oil, strategic metals, foods-growing new muscles on his runt-sized economic frame. Meantime the democracies would be cut short of rubber, tin and other strategic metals, tapioca (for sizing cotton and for abrasives), copra (for fats) and all the other vital supplies that the Indies supply...
...cans, use less tin and more lead in tubes for shaving and cold creams. This helped cut U.S. tin consumption by 10,000 tons (about 10%) a year. He figures that about 400,000 tons of shipping a year from the Far East was saved by suggesting substitutes for tapioca (for adhesives) and ilmenite (for painting white lines on highways...
...different from old "as a 1940 automobile from a vintage of 1910." Plywood is at least as old as 1900 B. C.-for a mummy case dated thereabouts, and discovered in Egypt, was made of it. But until recently the only glues available were starch glue from tapioca, blood albumin glue from slaughtered cattle and other animal glues. None of these was an adhesive that would "really stand up and fight with tension, torsion, or shear...