Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Production Authority last week gave a hearty boost to the synthetic fiber industry. It offered fast tax write-off certificates for enough new plants to raise the combined production of nylon and Acrilan from 100 to 300 million lbs. a year...
...because the Navy demanded extra reinforcing stanchions. Because the Navy banned all inflammable materials, the ship has no wooden ornaments or canvas paintings; public rooms are decorated with cold aluminum and glass sculptures and panels, or flame-resistant Dynel fabrics. Furniture and life preservers are stuffed with flameproof glass fiber instead of kapok. The only wooden objects on board are the butcher's blocks and the pianos. Even the orchestra leaders' batons are aluminum...
...Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to three Korean war heroes-Lieut. Lloyd L. Burke of Stuttgart, Ark., Corporal Rodolfo P. Hernandez of Fowler, Calif. and Marine Master Sergeant Harold E. Wilson of Birmingham, Ala.-and said, proudly: "These citations . . . show just exactly what the fiber of the American people is made...
Back in the '30s, Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass spent more than $7,500,000 on research into glass fiber, although neither company invented it. The threadlike glass was made in London over 100 years ago; a jacket woven of coarse glass fibers was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Owens-Illinois got commercially interested in glass fiber in 1931, when Chemist Games Slayter stumbled across a way to make fluffy glass fibers which could be used for insulation. In 1938 Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass formed Owens-Corning Fiberglas, split 95% of its stock...
...Glass fiber wool is used as insulating and soundproofing material, because it will not shrink, rot or absorb moisture; it goes into practically all refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, trucks and cars. Glass textiles are used for wiring insulation and as curtains and drapes. Three years ago a glass fishing rod was put on the market; now 10 million glass poles are in use. Boeschenstein knows how to advertise his products. In a "roving revue" the stars were an unbaked cherry pie, a quart of ice cream and a pot of hot coffee. The ice cream (wrapped in glass wool...