Word: binder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carroll Binder, Jr., 13, of Highland Park; Highland Park High School...
Hemmed in by Government competition, the utilities were cut off from new capital markets. Wendell Willkie cried out for private operation Binder full Government supervision. In vain. He advocated a revolving fund of $100,000,000 to finance private rural expansion, promising low rates if big-scale operation were made possible, while other bigshots in the utility field cringed at the rumpus that Willkie kicked...
Cellulose nitrate was the first binder used; actinic rays in sunshine turned this disagreeably brown. Cellulose acetate as a binder and actinic-filtering glass stopped the discoloration. But the glass was hard and, though it did not fly into lacerating fragments, a human head striking it fared badly. Moreover, it became brittle in cold weather. The new glass is not only soft for safety but keeps its effectiveness at temperatures around zero...
...freshness and beauty of these maps, painted in fresco-like colors with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
...officially listed as living on collective farms. The three largest centres for Cárdenas Collectivism are the vast La Laguna cotton districts, the wheat lands of Sonora, and the henequen region in the Yucatan Peninsula which used to lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody in Yucatan's capital felt wealthy and safe enough to buy an automobile. But many peons now have land, tools...