Word: fonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
This week the U. S. Senate got religion. Kicking and struggling like a small boy on his way to get his ears scrubbed, the Senate was dragged up to the baptismal font, ducked and blessed by New Mexico's Carl Hatch...
...most wars of the last 100 years or so, Du Font's was a good place to shop for sure-fire powder. But for the last 20 years, Du Pont has been easing out of the war business, in 1936 stopped promoting munitions sales abroad altogether. Nowadays it has a less lethal line-and the Du Pont name is best known for stuffs like Duco, Rayon, Zerone, nylon (for fish line, brush bristles, silky hose), plastics, Cellophane. Last year vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., chemicals empire (total assets...
Since 1935 Du Pont has been on the radio every season with a program called Cavalcade of America, not specifically to sell Duco or Cellophane, but to herald Du Font's part in supplying the U. S. with materials it once had to import, or perhaps had never imagined. This increasing state of self-sufficiency is hailed as "America's Declaration of Economic Independence...
...operation already, in Seaford, Del., is Du Font's $8,000,000 nylon plant, which can make nylon enough for some 10% of women's full-fashioned hose knitted in the U. S. And soon abuilding will be extensions to increase this capacity. In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose. If nylon sells nationally as well as it sells in Wilmington, Japan stands to lose something like $10,000,000 of her purchasing power in the U. S. Japan's sales...