Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safety engineers, who must also see that a plant is well ventilated and cleaned, urge workers to use new industrial skin creams (e.g., Du Font's "Pro-Tek"), which have been concocted to guard the skin from irritating chemicals. Insurance companies, which often have to fork over for industrial dermatoses, also encourage their use. Sales have doubled in the last year, and girls leave aircraft plants with smooth hands, after degreasing plane parts all day. But most doctors sniff at these industrial cosmetics. They claim that cleanliness will do the same trick...
...capacity to produce 800,000 tons in 1944-which begins to approach the United Nations' essential needs. (The civil consumer is out until 1945, at best.) Of that 800,000 tons, 100,000 will be specialty rubbers; 60,000, Standard Oil's famed butyl; 40,000, Du Font's long-established neoprene-strategic for self-sealing gas tanks, oil-resistant hose lines, etc. The rest will be what chemists designate as Buna-S, which has recently given road-test performances up to 130-160% of the best wearing qualities of natural rubber. The emergence of Buna...
...London Economist reported that Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie was producing a new artificial fiber, Perlon-Silk, claimed to be the equal of Du Font's nylon...
...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...
...Death, by veteran Script Writer Ruth Earth, done for Du Font's Cavalcade of America. A melodramatization, missing no tricks, of the U.S. Public Health Service's conquest of pellagra...