Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont's synthetic silk, said to have the elasticity that rayon lacks, is a synthesis of coal, air and water called Nylon, or Fibre 66. Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. Celanese Corp. of America is also working on a synthetic silk fibre, as yet unnamed...
Promising less, the Second Five-Year Plan visualized more modest gains: 178 new coal mines, 107 rolling mills, 93 oil cracking plants, 15 cotton mills, 21 shoe factories, eleven silk mills, along with a big extension of rolling stock, locomotives, tractors, power plants. Although it called for an 18.5% increase in consumer goods, ration cards were not abolished until 1935. Production of automobiles and trucks, in a country which has only 600,000, climbed slowly from 49,750 in 1933, to 199,315 in 1937. Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined...
...considered a lobbyist. A steely-eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...
Mother Martin did not. She used to carry the coal-oil lamp around at night while Glenn climbed about his contraption, gluing fabric on the wings, varnishing the struts...
...Wheatland, Pa., Anthony Kesey's mother sent him to a grocery for kerosene 31 years ago. Last week Anthony Kesey came home. Said he: "Mother, it's Tony and I've brought your coal...