Word: enamels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...renewal of the toothbrush." They expressed no preference between natural bristles and nylon bristles (80% of all toothbrushes are now nylon). The argument of natural v. nylon bristles is still raging among dentists; other researchers are busy with tests to find out which bristles cause least damage to enamel...
...babies. In keeping with their original general-store idea, the Leonards try to stock their counters with so great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...
...could paint with anything, even mud. But Orozco had been mighty particular about the materials for this picture, brazenly borrowing his method from the men he had once criticized. Mixed with ethyl silicate (a chemical binder used in making industrial plaster molds), his paints were more durable than car enamel. Rain splashed down on the mural every day last week, but failed to wash anything away...
That was too much for C. J. Rodman of the Porcelain Enamel Institute, and president of Allianceware, Inc. of Alliance, Ohio. Rodman makes metal fixtures, such as baths and sinks, and fears the Government-financed competition of Lustron, which he contends is tooled up to make four times as many fixtures as will be needed for its houses. Rodman even hinted that the new loan was given to help Lustron concentrate on fixture-manufacturing, thus protecting RFC's original stake in Lustron. Cried Rodman: "This loan and the Government's entire relations with Lustron have an extremely...
Victory. In advertisements, Lustron Corp.'s $8,000 five-room steel-enamel house looked bright enough. But until last week the prospects of producing many looked dark indeed. The steelmen who run the Department of Commerce's voluntary allocations had turned thumbs down on prefabricated housing ("not successful"). Last week, after intervention by Housing Administrator Raymond Foley and Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, the committee handed out 58,000 tons of steel to prefabs. To Lustron (which got all but 10,000 tons of the allocation), that meant 4,800 houses...