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Last week the Ford chemurgic laboratory at Dearborn displayed pride in a promising new fabric from soybean meal �said to be the first textile made from a vegetable protein.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides having acquired a considerable reputation as a motormaker and collector of antiques, Henry Ford looms very large in the U. S. "chemurgic" movement, which explores and promotes industrial use of agricultural products.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the greatest fiasco of the chemurgic movement had been the 1937 investment of $275,000 of Chemical Foundation funds in a 10,000-gallon-a-day alcohol plant of the Atchison Agrol Co. at Atchison, Kans.

From Time Magazine Archive