Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheat and corn seemed as immutable as original sin. Today, thanks to the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act-the Food for Peace program -the U.S. has whittled the hoard to less burdensome levels by simply selling, bartering and giving away $14 billion worth of surplus food and fiber in eleven years. In 1964 alone, Food for Peace shipments totaled $1.7 billion, one-third of all U.S. foreign...
...date, mechanized equipment. The main obstacle to modernization: as profits shrink, companies are finding it increasingly difficult to shoulder the high costs of automating their plants. Many are turning to synthetics, but in doing so must compete against the greater experience and entrenched position of existing synthetic-fiber producers...
Coin International, the leader of the new bond street, has achieved a 3-D effect by bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change...
...fast-growing market for fiber-tipped pens, now dominated by Japanese imports, Scripto has just introduced a Dacron-tipped version called Scriptip, which it hopes will out strip its competitors by providing a greater ink supply and a finer, longer-lasting nib at a lower price (39? v. 49? for most others...
...plane. The car was powered by a General Electric J-79 engine (the same kind used in the Air Force's F-104), which Breedlove picked up in Charlotte, N.C., for $7,500-$170,000 below its original cost. Craig himself designed the car's aluminum and fiber-glass body; the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. agreed to foot most of the bill (about $200,000) and supply tires guaranteed to 850 m.p.h. Breedlove named the car Spirit of America-Sonic I, obliquely announced: "I'm not going to try to break the sound barrier-unless I have...