News from China, Ireland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Palestine (12/2/38)

Microfiche-New York Times archives | 12/2/38 | Herbert L. Matthews, Joseph M. Levy, AP, unnamed correspondents

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Page 8 had some interesting stuff on it so here it is.

This may be a new thing you learn today:

Approximately 600 short tons of tung oil is reported to be included among the commodities now enroute from Hankow to Shanghai.

From Wikipedia:

Tung oil is made from the pressed seed from the nut of the tung tree. Tung oil is considered a drying oil much as linseed, safflower, poppy and soybean oil. When applied, it provides a tough, highly water-resistant finish which does not darken noticeably with age as does linseed oil. This is not to say that it is a colorless finish; it still has a slight golden tint. Tung oil is also sometimes called “China wood oil”. It has been used for hundreds if not thousands of years in China to seal decorative and marine wood as well as porous masonry.

[Islander7]

".....Tung oil is made from the pressed seed from the nut of the tung tree...."

There was once a thriving tung nut industry in South Mississippi. Huge groves of the trees covered hillsides. Their spring blooms were beautiful beyond words.

Hurricane Camille devastated the brittle trees and killed the industry in 1969. It has never recovered.

There are a few trees in the area though. Here are the blooms.



Company in Market for New Tung Oil Orchards in Mississippi.

From 1998, it didn't work.

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There certainly is a lot going on around the world during this time. Imagine, news in the newspapers. Too bad now they aren’t worth reading.

[PAR35]

During World War II, the government encouraged the planting of Tung trees in South Georgia as part of the war effort. (Although Tung trees were first planted in north Florida and South Georgia about a hundred years ago. )

Near Cairo, [GA] ca. 1906-1908. Woman stands next to a flowering tung tree. The seeds of the tung tree produce tung oil, the most powerful drying oil known. According to the J. B. Wight Nurseries and Fairchild's The World Has My Garden, the "largest tung oil tree in this country has grown from a seed imported in 1907. It has borne 250 pounds of nuts in one year." http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/vang/meta_dlg_vang_gra022.html?Welcome

[Islander7]

I remember the groves in bloom. They are beautiful, the leaves are large, heart shaped and bright green.