Southern horizons

Haynes, Williams

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.19872

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“…The Tung Oil Association of America established some 75,000 acres of plantings of the tung tree in several Gulf Coast states, intending to find a domestic substitute for imported paint and varnish oils. Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture William Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover funded a few small research surveys that focused on utilization of farm wastes, including a search for vegetable alternatives to coal tar dyes in its Arlington, Virginia laboratories (Rommel 1928;Blythe 1931;Borth 1942;Haynes 1946;Marcus and Lokensgard 1986).…”

Section: Context Of the 1920s And 1930smentioning

confidence: 99%

Old Efforts at New Uses: A Brief History of Chemurgy and the American Search for Biobased Materials

Finlay

2003

J of Industrial Ecology

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SummaryThe American search for biobased and renewable raw materials has a long history of intermittent success and frustration. This article traces the history of the chemurgy movementa precursor to what are now sometimes called agricultural "new uses" initiatives-from its context of the 1920s through its emergence as a political force in the mid-1930s, when chemurgy offered a strategy for industries and governments interested in reviving the agricultural economy and reducing dependence upon foreign sources of industrial raw materials. Chemurgists put pressure upon the U.S. Department of Agriculture to devote greater attention to crop utilization research, efforts that were operational in time to make important contributions to the U.S. economy during World War II. This article devotes considerable attention to the postwar era, a period not discussed in most histories of chemurgy. The article concludes with a tentative assessment of issues that caused chemurgy to falter in the past as well as precautionary lessons for the contemporary study of biobased materials.

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Section: Context Of the 1920s And 1930smentioning

confidence: 99%