From Chungking he wired Manhattan’s Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan smack on the tung-oil barrel head—nearly two years before the ...

But after it has been boiled, it turns into inedible linseed oil, a hardening oil. Tung oil is the harder of the two and the one most often used on its own, while linseed oil is a common base for ...