Word: soybeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...subscriber to your esteemed magazine TIME, I wish to take exception to the reference to Mr. Henry Ford as the No. 1 U. S. soybean man, as appears in the issue of Oct. 12. I feel that your article and general information on the soybean industry is very accurate and extremely well written and I think that if you make the proper investigation you will find that Mr. A. E. Staley, chairman of the board of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Ill. should be considered by all odds the No. 1 soybean...
...think the fact that Illinois accounted for 21,834,000 bu. of the total U. S. production of 39,637,000 bu. in 1935 can be largely attributed to Mr. Staley's pioneer work in educating the farmers of his own State in the production of soybeans and it is also interesting to note that Mr. Staley built the first soybean plant in the U. S. in 1922, which provided a commercial market for the farmers of Illinois. Mr. Staley realized the possibilities in the soybean industry as far back as 1916 and even sent men to China...
Detroit's Ford may be the most publicized promoter of soybeans, but Reader Mead is right in rating Decatur's Staley as a potent longtime soybean processor. As a North Carolina farm boy, Professor Staley was first shown soybean plants by a returned missionary, never lost interest in the crop thereafter. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., makers of corn products, crushed 5,764 bu. of beans when it opened its bean processing plant in October 1922, crushed 317,202 bu. in March...