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...early Agriculture Department, untroubled by overproduction, was beautifully clear: to apply science to the task of increasing the output and efficiency of U.S. farms. And if output and efficiency were the only measure, the result would be spectacular. A century ago, the average U.S. farmer produced enough food and fiber for 4.5 persons. That figure increased over the years, and by 1940 it had reached 10.5. Then the demands of World War II brought an explosion in productivity. By 1950 the average farmer supplied the requirements of 14.5 persons. That figure has since nearly doubled: it now stands...
...gear last year-up more than 100% since the low year of 1958. Among the many research projects, 150-year-old J.P. Stevens & Co. is working with papermakers to develop disposable clothing, and Deering-Milliken is reportedly experimenting with a process to manufacture textiles by pressing bits of fiber together instead of weaving them. But the industry cannot prosper as it should until some sense is brought into the pricing of its raw materials, which account for 50% of its production costs...
Bigger things now beckon. "Boats! Yachts!" says Macqueen enthusiastically. "There's no difference, really, between knitting a boat and knitting a bra cup. The boat is about the same shape, just bigger that's all." He is hard at work on a machine to knit glass-fiber yarn into streamlined boat hulls up to 40 ft. long. "You put the garment into a mold," says Macqueen, "and plasticize it. Hey, presto! You have a yacht...
...fiber bundles or Spanish verb endings in the fourteenth century are your greatest joy in life, who is to say that you should spend your time on merely temporal activities? Out of respect, we will not contend with such as you (though we wonder how you know fiber bundles or Spanish verbs are the greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand...
...Winnaker does not seem very worried about the future. Nearly half of Hoechst's sales come from products developed by the company's scientists within the past ten years (among them: Rastinon, the first oral insulin for diabetics; Segontin, a drug for circulatory disturbances; Trevira, a polyester fiber for garments). Winnaker intends to keep up the flow. Hoechst's new research facility is so designed that next to each two-man experimental laboratory is another lab in which a development team will work at finding commercial applications for whatever discoveries the researchers may make...