North American Cyanamid News
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1953
Source: North American Cyanamid Limited News Volume 2, Number 11 (November 1953), cover, Beachville District Museum collection – 2020.09.08
North American Cyanamid specialized in producing the compound calcium cyanamide – which is rich in nitrogen and could be used as a fertilizer to feed growing plants. The company boasted that as soils lost their ability “to regenerate and maintain crop productivity,” cyanamide could be used to ward off “the grim spectre of mass starvation.”