Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-08-21
WOMEN ADVISED
NOT TO DISCARD
KITCHEN FATS
THEIR VITAL LINK WITH MANU-
FACTURE OF EXPLOSIVES
Is EXPLAINED

THEIR VITAL LINK WITH MANU-
FACTURE OF EXPLOSIVES
Is EXPLAINED
II the women of America will sal
wage only enc fourth Of the kitchen
fats and greases ordinarily thrown
oat IS waste. they will be providing
the power for firing 1,25O .0O0, 900
and-tank shells at our enemies. To
the majority Of these women 1t will
come as = distinct surprise that the
propellant power secured from their
salvage Is glycerine. To most women.
glycerine Is something which, mixed
with a pleasant smelling liquid
known as rose water, helps keep their
hands the kind you love to touch.
Yet without glycerine our great bat
tleShips, charting course toward
Tokyo, might conceivably end up in
San Francisco. Without glycerine our
big guns, blasting at the enemy, might
leap from their carriages to turn their
havoc on our own gun crews. Without
glycerine, the depth charge intended
for the nazi submarine might prove a
boomerang for the corvette carrying it.
And without fats and oils our sup
ply of glycerine would be minus
quantity For although synthetic glyc-
crime is a distinct possibility for the
future that future, due to other scare
tiles necessary to its production, re-
cedes as fast as we vision 1t.
With the loss Of the Philippines and
the loss of Malaga went over half our
imports of essential fats and oils. Our
allies lost equal amounts. Certain Of
our Latin American neighbors, also de-
pendent on the Far East for their
sources, are looking toward us for
help in spelling out their limited sup
plies. Yet our needs and those Of our
allies for glycerine, the important de-
rivative Of these fats and oils, increases
each day the war continues.
Normally. about % percent of our
glycerine supply has gone into explo-
sives Peacetime uses for these have
been confined largely to blasting and
mining operations, uses which are in
creasing this year and undoubtedly
will continue to increase for the dura-
ton of the war.
The demand for more and more
metal-for guns, for ships, for tanks,
for planes - has put tremendously
greater production burdens on our
mining industries. The crying need for
new production plants, that our flow
of war material may be never-ending
:. the necessity for more and more
military barracks :. the insistent call
for added defense housing projects q.
all this is requiring more and more eX-
plosive, and heretofore more and more
glycerine, for blasting operations.
But our armed services and those OF
our allies need explosives, too. The sec
~,
Australia and China and India cannot
be carried out without countless tons
of dynamite for demolition purposes,
and of propellant powders for the guns.
All over the world the dull boom OF
dynamite and the sharp crack of rifles
signals the need of salvaging our
kitchen fats and greases. To produce
one ton of dynamite, some 300 pounds
of nitroglycerine must be used with
the other component parts of the for
mula. And to have the 800 pounds OF
nitroglycerine, it is necessary to mix
about 1876 pounds of glycerine with
other necessary ingredients. And 1876
pounds Of glycerine is derived from no
less than $3.50 pounds of fat or grease.
But glycerine performs its military
duties in other and quieter ways, too.
It's on a gentle float of glycerine that
ships compasses rest. Recoil mechan-
isms of guns depend on it to function
smoothly, hoists and hydraulic equip
ment find glycerine essential to eff
cient operation. It's used in the mech
aniSm which throw overheard the
deadly depth charge.
Indirectly necessary to the defensive
and offensive prosecution of the war
in
plastics which go into so many of our
articles of war. Glycerine is an i'm
portant part of these resins. Many
drugs and indications, too, depend on
glycerine for their efficiency, and sup
plies of these must be increased to
care for the needs of our ever-growing
armed forces as well as civilians.
Last year the United States used 200
million pounds of glycerine. This year
with the needs of Americas allies add
ed to needs of the United States, glyc-
crime requirements are set as consid-
erably in excess of that amount. And
1t is to the kitchens Of the country that
the glycerine industry is looking for
at least so million pounds of that need
Ten pounds of waste fat and grease
will produce one pound Of glycerine
To insure the 100000 pounds of vital
glycerine, 100000 900 pounds of waste
fats are the objective of the fats and
grease salvage drive. This objective
should be easy to reach for it is fig
ured that no less than two billion
pounds of grease go down the drain OF
out with the garbage every year.
All over the country farmers are
working hard and long to increase es-
sential oil bearing crops and fat bear
ing animals, needed, not only for glyc-
crime but for food and various indus
trial purposes. Increases in the produc-
ton of domestic fats and oils are ex-
pected to keep us out of the danger
zone this year, but unfavorable cror
conditions, resulting in short harvests
or further falling off in imports due
to the activities of axis submarines ir
the south Atlantic would leave us with
. gloomy outlook.
Salvage Of kitchen fats and grease:
Is one source which neither weather
nor war can affect this year and Il
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