Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Products. Weyerhaeuser is turning out five bark products under the name, Silvacon. They can be used as a soil mulch, in the manufacture of phenolic resin and fiber paints, and as a plywood adhesive...
This may make Finland sound grimmer than it is. The Finns are cheerful, well dressed and, judging by the violent exercise they indulge in, well fed. They have their freedom. To people whose fiber is almost as hard as the granite ledges that crop out all over their country, that means a lot. The Finns kept their national character and language for centuries under the Swedes and the Czars. They are keeping it now. Said an American who knows them: "These people are nobody's satellites. They're Finns...
...discovered that to lie, deceive or steal was the only way to survive. ... A sackful of Japanese "Mickey-Mouse" money often would not buy fish and rice to feed your starving wife and children. The only way out was to steal. Imperceptibly, insidiously, inevitably, a weakening of the moral fiber had to come about. Thus, even long after V-J day, we see the sad spectacle of a considerable number of Filipinos still finding it convenient and profitable to live by their wits...
Most successful experimenter was Dr. Wallace Carothers of Du Pont. While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor. Under the name of Astro-tone, it is widely used as a musk substitute. (Returning to bis original quest, Du Font's Carothers did women an even greater service by discovering nylon...
...boats are blunt-ended like the punts still popular on conservative British rivers. Forty-five feet long by four feet wide, they were built of four-inch, hewn-oak planks, laced together with yew-fiber ropes, the seams caulked with moss. They showed that the ancient Britons were seagoing (or at least river-going) long before the Romans discovered them...