Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every nine months or so, a dirigible has to slough its outer skin. Every year the interior gasbags have to be removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...
...Institute by the General Education Board, which has voted partial support until 1928. "Barney" Baruch* became a name known many miles from Wall Street when on March 5, 1918, Woodrow Wilson made him head of the War Industries Board. The Board exercised supervision over virtually the entire industrial fabric of the nation, with power to commandeer plants, purchase for the Allies, allocate materials, place contracts. Mr. Baruch's was the "broadest authority and most autocratic control ever vested in any individual...
...banks that they are unable to preserve the equity of their properties. They are unable to undertake the diversification of farming that is fundamentally necessary for sound agricultural reconstruction of the area; they are unable to meet their obligations, and thereby has been involved the entire mercantile and banking fabric of these regions...
...General Secretary Charles S. MacFarland said that the fabric of European Protestantism is crumbling, is in danger of collapse. Protestants have suffered most (Germany is chiefly Protestant). American churches must help with...
...discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...