Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-seven years ago sportive King Edward VII, adopting the most pious demeanor in his repertoire, journeyed to sooty Liverpool and laid the cornerstone of the Church of England's vastest fabric. Designed by great Roman Catholic Gothicist Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Liverpool Cathedral has been under construction ever since. It is 619 feet long, with a tower which will rise 308 feet; when completed, it will be second in size only to St. Peter's huge basilica in Rome. Nazi bombs have shattered some of its stained glass and scarred its walls, but have left mainly intact...
...deft beyond what I have ever seen elsewhere approached. . . . [The shirt] breaks like snow, and is stitched and patched . . . and stitches and patches are manifolded upon the stitches and patches, and more on these, so that at length, at the shoulders, the shirt contains virtually nothing of the original fabric and a man . . . wears in his work on the power of his shoulders a fabric as intricate and fragile, and as deeply in honor of the reigning sun, as the feather mantle of a Toltec prince...
Talon's machines, which stamp zipper teeth out of metal tape and fasten them in a row on fabric, would be useless for anything else. Its workers (like those of other industries) would have to be retrained before they could work on defense orders. But its efficient tool shop (which has developed and made the company's own precision machinery) could go to town on orders for small items such as cartridge cases, instrument parts, bomb & shell fuses. Already the company had filled some defense orders for gauges (as well as for fasteners on Army uniforms and sleeping...
Nylon bearings. Advantages, claimed in a Du Pont patent: no lubrication required; less friction, vibration, heat; longer wear and ability to carry heavier loads than bearings made of bronze, brass, babbitt metal. In the past, bearings have been made of synthetic resins, but they had to be reinforced with fabric fillers, required water lubrication...
...women and three children in the colony near Allentown, Pa., including Garland's son Mowgli. When reporters asked which belonged to which, Garland said: "As to unmarried people living together, this is a matter of individual inclination, and not understood by the common run of social fabric." A daughter was born to one of the women, without medical care, died three months later, without medical care. The undertaker refused to sell a coffin, because there was no death certificate...