Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts running out. You want to meet a challenge and wrap it up, so that when you put your chips down, you can say, 'that's one I did.' " Last week, after 24 years with the Du Pont Co., the last two as director of synthetic fiber sales, Malcolm Jones went off to meet a new challenge-the chance to "run my own show." He became president of Manhattan's Robbins Mills, Inc., maker of synthetic fabrics for everything from clothing to auto upholstery and bulletproof vests...
Then the Secretary lifted his sights from dairymen to all farmers who are losing markets through Government-rigged prices. He pointed to cotton (synthetic fibers, such as nylon and rayon, now account for the equivalent of 3,300,000 bales of cotton a year) and to wool ("The public ... has been sold on suits, rugs and other products that contain high proportions of fiber other than wool"). If these price-supported industries had been fighting to hold or expand their markets, they would not have become the victims of such deep inroads from competitors...
...newsprint selling for $126 a ton, more than twice the 1945 price, the publishers heard good news about a possible cheaper substitute. In New Orleans, Valentine Pulp & Paper Co. announced that it would build a $2,633,000 mill at Lockport, La. to make newsprint from bagasse, a waste fiber left after grinding sugar cane. In a year, Valentine expects to be turning out 50 tons a day, get other companies interested in the process...
...other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...
...Graceful. Vance is sure that the oversize car is on the way out, and that car design may change fast in the next few years under the spur of hell-for-leather competition already in sight. Studebaker will have to hustle faster than ever to keep its designers ahead. Fiber glass and plastic bodies already promise great weight-savings and economies. Rear-engine autos, which would cut production costs, are another possibility. Last year Studebaker queried 10,000 people, found to its surprise that 50% of them would not hesitate to buy such...