Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Dr. Robert W. Carter, research head of Taylor-Sloane Corp., which has been trying for ten years to perfect metal alloy photographic film, announced that it had succeeded, that the new film would be on sale within 90 days. According to Dr. Carter, Taylor-Sloane film is cheap, grainless, sensitive, non-inflammable, indestructible, non-shrinkable, capable of being used on both sides...
...blowing glass with his lungs, invented a machine to do it for him. From Houghton's investment grew Corning Glass Works; from Owens' invention, Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Last week, after seven years' experimenting, these two famed oldsters fostered a wonder-child-Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., the first U. S. glass company devoted to the manufacture of textiles...
Fibre glass, which is simply glass drawn superfine, was made in Germany as far back as 1878. But this German product was coarse, expensive, heavy, crudely made (example: a woman on a jacked-up bicycle would pedal the fibre onto the back wheel). Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. will make fibre by forcing white-hot glass through tiny orifices with a jet of steam. Resulting fibres are 2/10,000 of an inch in diameter. About 100 of them are twisted into a strand of yarn which looks and feels like wool...
...Corning and Owens glass fibres are already being used for various purposes by Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., Holland Furnace Co., Frigidaire Corp., several others...
...rayon firm is American Viscose Corp., No. 2 Du Pont...