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...patents, most of them used by Du Pont. It was Greenewalt's work on nylon-the biggest treasure yet turned up in Du Pont test tubes-which put him far up on the skimmer chart. Du Pont's brilliant scientist, Dr. Wallace Carothers, first materialized the nylon fiber by finding a way to simulate the long-chain molecules found naturally in silk. But it was Greenewalt's patient five-year nursing, from test tube to pilot plant, that helped bring nylon to mass production in 1939, put his feet on the road to the presidency...
...called 'innocent' forms of gambling, such as legalized race-track wagers, betting on athletic events, lotteries, bingo and the like, contribute to weakening the moral fiber of the individual and lower the tone of the community...
...attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber of U.S. youth...
...Herbert Hoover had set up RFC to lend $1.5 billion to ailing banks and industries. Then the Democrats fattened and pampered it like one of their own alphabetical children, bolstered its lending power to $18.8 billion, and put it into the wartime business of running rubber plants, Central American fiber plantations and steel mills...
From the South, Champion Paper & Fiber Co.'s Charles W. Dabney Jr. reported that the South's second-half business would outstrip 1950's first six months. "Employment appears to have been stabilized...