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Show SOYBEAN VALUABLE WITH MANY DIETETIC USES A World premiere of Soybean milk highlighted the complete soybean soy-bean luncheon served to home economists, eco-nomists, dieticians and women journalists by the Ford Motor Co. recently. Introduced as a World Neighbor Luncheon, the frnenu was planned to present practical soybean dishes to the world's housewives and demonstrate Henry Ford's faith in the soybean as an important factor fac-tor in rehabilitating war-devastated countries where dairy herds and food sources have been destroyed. de-stroyed. While tasted and tested in the laboratory, the soybean milk had never before made its appearance at a meal. Here it appeared as a beverage, in a soft cream custard, rich delicious ice cream and smooth butter. Henry Ford II, son of Edsel Ford, with his guests, commented particularly about the butter. "It's a little softer in texture but that's about the only difference differ-ence between it and real butter,' he said. In the past, Henry Ford's experiments ex-periments with the soybean have led to the increased use of the plant by industry. born, pointed out that the milk offered of-fered unlimited possibilities for supplying the necessary protein to the children of Europe where it will take years to rebuild dairy herds. Smith explained: "The soybean is one of the most complete veget-able veget-able foods known. It contains proteins, pro-teins, fat, carbohydrate, minerals and vitamins. The protein ,of which easily and completely digested as there is 35 to 40 per cent, is as meat, and the bean contains all of the amino-acids necessary to life." Oil from the soybean has been used in the Ford Motor Company's paints and enamels as well as a core binder in the foundry. Meal from the bean has been developed into a molding plastic and used in the production of horn buttons, gear shift balls, light switch levers and distributor parts for Ford automobiles. When the war intervened, and the government took over the allocation al-location of soybean by-products, a fiber similar to wool had been processed from soybean. This the company intended to use for automobile auto-mobile upholsteries. In the discussion of the soybean as a food source, Robert Smith, soybean chemist at the Carver Experimental Ex-perimental Laboratory in Dear- |