Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such U.S. 12-meters as Vim and Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from ¼ oz. per sq. yd. (for the spinnakers...
...honking of 700,000 cars, trucks and motorcycles, v. 59,000 before the war; traffic jams are hideous, and the death rate from traffic accidents the highest in the world. So many people pack stores, subways and amusement centers that one entrepreneur sells a "slippery coat" of tough synthetic fiber to make it easier to slither through crowds...
...invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses isn't a great vaulter. All he did was perfect a gimmick." Bragg's complaint: Uelses uses a feather-light (5 Ibs.) flexible fiber-glass pole that-says Bragg -acts like a slingshot, catapulting the vaulter to heights he could not otherwise reach. (Countered Uelses: "Let Bragg do the talking. I'll do the vaulting.") An official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records set with fiber-glass poles might...
Fact is that tastes in vaulting poles are as changeable as Paris fashions: rules permit them to be made of anything at all, and, at one time or another, vaulters have experimented with ash, hickory, bamboo. steel and aluminum as well as fiber glass. Bob Mathias used a fiber-glass pole to win the Olympic decathlon back in 1952; Greek Pole Vaulter George Roubanis used one when he took a bronze medal at Melbourne in 1956. But the fiber-glass pole is no guarantee of success: all but a handful of the U.S.'s top 20 vaulters...
...money in the chemical industry is to develop some far-out fiber, plastic or chemical and then to build a fence of patents around it. Example: nylon. At a cost of $27 million, Du Pont developed nylon in the 1930s; for 15 years until its patent expired, Du Pont got about one-third of its profits from nylon...