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Show ONE GOOD THING FROM WAR Cocone Nut, Hitherto Considered Only as Nuisance, Has Been Made Aril-i Aril-i cle of Commerce. Before the war the cocone, which , grows freely In the Southern Amert-j Amert-j cas. on large trees of the palm ram- ilr, was literally such a hard nut to ( crack that Its vegetable oil had no : place In commerce, and the tree was known chiefly as a botheration to illinium planters when they wished to j enlarge their plantations. Eighteen i hundred pounds' pressure Is required , to crack the cocone nut, and there was no machinery for doing It Then government gov-ernment experts said that nothing else In the world would provide such good carbon for gas masks ns the cocone nut. and the United States financed the creation of machinery for cracking crack-ing It, thus starting a new and Important Im-portant Industry. Hereafter It will 1 he well worth while hreaklng the shells for the vegetable oil Inside them, valuable val-uable for cooking, lighting, and the making of nut butter; nnd the shells, happily no longer needed for masks, can be used as fuel or In the manufacture manufac-ture of gns. And so. out of. an effort to-prevent the expansion of autocracy by conquest, the Southern Americas And opportunity to expand by commerce. com-merce. Sclent lllc American. |