Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a state in the Union wanted to land the big new plant. It would cost $25 million to $35 million, employ 1,500, be the first in the U.S. to produce a Dacron-like fiber called Teron. This week the site was announced by its joint builders-Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries and the Celanese Corp. of America. Their choice was Shelby, N.C. One major reason for choosing North Carolina, said Celanese, was the "wholehearted cooperation" of Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges...
...stone statues of big-nosed, long-eared men and moved the figures, weighing up to 50 tons, from inside an extinct volcano to stone platforms rimming the island. According to archaeological evidence, the job was done without metal, without knowledge of the wheel, without technical aids save poles and fiber ropes. How could this feat be accomplished...
Rendering the captive queens edible requires little culinary art. The ants are toasted in their own fat on thin clay roof tiles over a wood fire, then salted lightly. Since they contain formic acid, a natural preservative, they remain unspoiled in the markets, where they are displayed in large fiber baskets...
...George, fourth duke, exhibited the family's growing "relaxation of fiber," and "withdrew from the struggle of life into seclusion and silence." He spent lavishly on the family seat, Blenheim Palace, beautifying the grounds but so cluttering up the interior that Horace Walpole said: "It looks like the palace of an auctioneer who has been chosen King of Poland...
...hotter project, a new missile so secret that "birdwatchers" at Florida's Cape Canaveral know it largely by rumor. Called the Bull Goose, Fairchild's missile is a speedy, jet-engined vehicle with 5,000-mile range and a mission as unique as its name. Made of fiber glass, the Goose can be fitted with radar reflectors to make it resemble almost any craft including a B-52 Stratofortress or a B58 Hustler, thus decoy enemy defense away from the real bombers. The Goose will have a lightweight, 2,000-lb.-thrust J83 engine, also a Fairchild development...