Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad wings and fuselage as they were told, distributing weight as evenly as possible to help the fabric keep them afloat. They were a little scared. The ship's heavy engines were taking her down nose first...
Almost exactly a yearago (TiME, Sept. 14, 21, 1925), another plane, the PN-9, NO. 1, fell with Commander Rodgers into the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco was 1,700 miles behind; the Hawaiian Islands 400 miles ahead. He and his men had no food, no fuel. They ripped the fabric off the wings and caught a little rainwater in it. Commander Rodgers, with a "silly little still" his mother had made him take along, distilled more drink from seawater. After a week, a submarine found the plane and its scarecrow crew...
Rayon. When, some weeks ago, the price of raw artificial silk (rayon) yarn came down 35? a lb., fabricators of rayon fabrics groused at foreign yarn makers. These broke the price of U. S. yarns by shipping (in 1925) 5,441,000 lbs. of yarn (one-tenth of the total U. S. consumption) here. Fabric makers had large stocks of expensive yarn on hand, none the less had to lower cloth prices. As a result one great manufacturer, the American Rayon Products Corp., last week was forced to pass its regular 50? dividend...
...GREAT GOD BROWN?Eugene O'Neill unwinding the devious fabric of two men's minds?two enemies who traded the spirit for cash down...
...unless it rests upon spiritual realities it is impossible to create a commercial system which is not built on credit, confidence, and faith. Without the elements of honor and honesty there can be no economic advance. If the requirements of character be withdrawn from our business structure the whole fabric would collapse. IF AMERICA IS ADVANCING ECONOMICALLY. IT IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEP RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS OF ITS PEOPLE...