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...came up to tell him that the bull's eyesight had evidently undergone a change during the previous few minutes, probably from congestion of blood, and that he was now demonstrating tendencies he had not shown before; possibly he was favoring one side, or refusing to follow the cloth. But Balderas, full of confidence and probably still in a state of exaltation from his previous triumph, declined the advice and went out to take over. Since he was senior man in the ring, this was his privilege. He was caught almost at once, and the bull held...
...been bungled in Defense, letters of protest harried the responsible agencies in Washington. The War Department published a long list of U. S. companies. All were out for something (tax concessions), but all were producing something for Defense: powder, trucks, elastic stop nuts, brass & copper, engines, airplanes, cotton cloth, machine tools, worsted, rope. Army lieu tenants (the Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa. claimed tax concessions on the ground that it was expanding its capacity to train cadets). President Roosevelt sensed and rode the current...
Even cotton manufacturers, who have not been able to plead higher raw-material prices, have pushed broadcloth prices up from 4 to 25%, print cloth 13 to 14% anyway. By December this wholesale price situation had raised store prices from one to four percent over pre-war levels for suits, underwear, sheets and blankets...
...year's No.1 technological achievement owed nothing to war. But when Du Pont made nylon a commercial reality, they not only invaded the silk-hosiery business but gave Irving Air Chute Co. a new non-Japanese source of parachute cloth...
Unlike most commercial plastics, the Boyer sheets for automobiles look like polished steel. Test panels are 70% cellulose fibre, 30% resin binder, pressed into cloth. Alone the cloth has little strength. But several sheets heat-molded in a 1,000-ton press produce a material superior to steel in everything but tensile strength. It is 50% lighter, 50% cheaper, ten times stronger. Bent like a jackknife in a huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color...