Money in Moss.

The article discusses seaweed gums and their uses, their postwar prospects, and the specialized skills needed to cure them. It focuses on the gum extract from Irish moss (Chondrus crispus), carrageenin, which is rated most important among the seaweed gums available commercially and is an ingredient of a fast-growing list of foodstuffs. A laxative, it is found in cosmetics, drug preparations, and cold-water paints. The other two gums agar and algin reportedly have their special fields, and research is said to be under way to find new uses for them.