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...these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: The Lovely Future | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...what Butch forgot was that most big packers do not make profits from meat sales alone, but from the sale of byproducts (fertilizers, soap, glue), which the Mayor was unable to include. Small packers, who must depend mainly on meat sales, applauded Butch to the echo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEAT: Butch Buys a Steer | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...losing money in the price squeeze, losses which are not made up by the Government's subsidy. Something should be done for them.* But the others, notably the Big Four (Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy) are making up losses on meat through the sale of byproducts, tallow, glue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEAT: Profits & Sin | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...world's brightest diplomatic stars, Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Rifat Menemencioglu (pronounced approximately many-men'-chaw-glue), went into eclipse last week. The latest play in Turkey's shrewd neutrality game, which he had managed skillfully since 1942, forced him to retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Heroic Scapegoat | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture's Daniel F. J. Lynch of New Orleans announced that peanut oil now makes a good substitute for olive oil in salads, mayonnaise and for industrial uses. Peanut proteins already have a big new market in a glue for paper and wood. In Georgia, the peanut crop is already close to cotton in value, may soon pass it, may even compete with soybeans for commercial interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemurgic Southwest | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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