Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1918 — Beans and Aviation. [ARTICLE]

Beans and Aviation.

No one would ever associate the humble bean with the success or failure of a great aircraft program, writes H. E. Coflin, in the Saturday Evening Post, and yet just now we are arranging for the planting in America of a hundred thousand acres of castor beans, the oil from which is a vital necessity to the smooth running of aircraft engines.