Contents: Introduction --- Procedure and Assumptions --- Nature of World Competition in Oils and Fats (Relative Importance of Oil Meal and Oil from Different Oil Crops) --- What Are the Major Oil Crops? --- Leading Oil Crop Areas --- Production Trends Before the War (Relative Yields of Tropical Oil Crops and Temperate Oil Crops) --- Impact of War --- Prospective Trends in Production --- World Expansion and the United States --- Individual Oil Crop (Coconuts, Copra, and Coconut Oil – Peanuts and Peanut Oil – Palm Oil – Palm-kernel Oil – Soybeans and Soybean Oil – Cottonseed and Cottonseed Oil – Olive Oil – Sesame Seed and Sesame Oil – Rapeseed and Mustard Seed and Their Oils – Sunflower Seed and Oil – Babassu Kernels and Oil – Flaxseed and Linseed Oil – Tung, Perilla, and Castor Oils) --- Summary and Conclusions.