tallow-wax

That was where the tallow-wax that was being held out from the Co-operative was stored.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

Chemically, tallow-wax isn't like anything else in the known Galaxy.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

"No. The Jarvis's sea-monster wasn't discovered until after the city was built, and it was years after the company had gone bankrupt before anybody found out about what tallow-wax was good for."

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

They were talking about the price of tallow-wax, and they seemed to have picked up a rumor that it was going to be cut another ten centisols a pound.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

"They didn't send any Executive Special Agent here for five years to investigate this tallow-wax racket of his."

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

When Steve Ravick had gotten control of the Hunters 'Co-operative, the price of tallow-wax, on the loading floor at Port Sandor spaceport, had been fifteen hundred sols a ton.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

For that matter, I wondered why we didn't grow tallow-wax by carniculture.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

He might not know what a literary agent was, but he knew tallow-wax.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

The targets were regular tallow-wax skins, blown up and weighted at one end so that they would float upright.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

Well, I thought, a couple of million sols 'worth of tallow-wax, in which they all owned shares, was something to get mean about.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934