206 Miracles Ahead! 



pressed research on the production of fire hose which would 

 not require scarce rubber or linen. Large amounts of cotton 

 fire-hose yarn will be used, opening another market for 

 cotton. 



Cotton Roads 



Tire manufacturers long have used cotton fabric in tire 

 carcasses. More recently "cotton roads" have been built in a 

 number of states to try out a specially woven cotton mesh 

 used as a reinforcement for asphalt highways. "Some day, 

 perhaps," declared the National Association of Manufactur- 

 ers, "you will ride on partly cotton roads in a partly cotton 

 automobile on partly cotton tires to a picnic where you will 

 use cotton seed oil on a salad which you will eat with a cotton- 

 handled fork." 



Corn for Photographic Films 



Much of our corn is used to feed hogs and other farm 

 animals. Millions of bushels also are converted into corn meal, 

 cornstarch, corn syrup, and corn sugar by manufacturing 

 plants. But chemurgists have shown us that the cornstalks and 

 corncobs should not be ignored. They contain valuable cellu- 

 lose used in the production of fibers, photographic films, 

 plastics, and scores of other products. 



Oat Hulls in the Synthetic-Rubber Field 



The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little, Inc., points out 

 that furfural, an old chemurgic product made from oat hulls, 

 is getting a boost from the synthetic-rubber program which 

 may give it a much bigger place in the postwar chemical 

 world: 



"Furfural was introduced commercially in 1922 by the 

 Quaker Oats Co., following a research program on the dispo- 



