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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't until two years later that Camden discovered that E. I. du Pont de Nemours had picked the town as the site for a $17 million plant for processing Orion, a new synthetic fiber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Enlightened Revolution | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

WETTING AGENTS. A small amount of the proper fluorochemical makes a solution "wetter." This property is valuable in textile dyeing; it helps the dye reach every fiber of the cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fluorine's Empire | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Many industries far outstripped the average gain. Of 26 industries sampled by BLS, nine (including lead, zinc and copper mining, the synthetic fiber industry) showed a rise in man-hour output of 10% or more. Productivity in the anthracite coal industry was off 4%, but for all the mining industry, it was up 6%, equal to the total rise scored during the eleven preceding year's. Manufacturers' productivity rose 8%, compared with the normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Better Work, More Goods | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...correspondence reflects a growing lack of faith by a large segment of our population in the responsibility and moral fiber of our own process of government. Truth has ceased to be keystone to the arch of our national conscience and propaganda has replaced it as the rallying media for public support. Corruption and rumors of corruption have shaken the people's trust in the integrity of those administering the civil power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A POLICY OF TIMIDITY & FEAR | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...Hindu extremist agitation. His real targets: Atom, Current, Struggle and Blitz, four Bombay-published sensational weeklies which have consistently attacked Nehru's domestic and foreign policy, scurrilously attacked the U.S. In its next issue, Blitz compared Nehru with Hitler, said: "There is as much deterioration in the moral fiber of Nehru as there is in the moral strength of the so-called Congress [Party]. The sponsor of civil liberties in 1936 has become the wrecker of liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Next to Godliness? | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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