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...merely hard usage that deadens rubber billiard cushions, windshield strips, matting, packing, belting, hose, tires. The soft air sucks life just as surely, though more insidiously. At the chemical laboratories of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., a new product has been invented-neozone. Rubber treated with neozone resists the subtle deterioration caused by oxygen in the air, thus retains life longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Livelier Rubber | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silk | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sodamat | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...life, was released from the Elizabeth City Hospital Sunday morning. Young Nixon was brought to the hospital last week in a frightful condition from the effects of a blast of air from a powerful air compressor injected into his interior by a playmate. The nozzle of the air hose was thrust into the posterior of the youth and the air blast literally blew the contents of his bowels up and through his mouth and nostrils. He was brought to the hospital with his intestines inflated and paralyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tonics & Sedatives | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York just finished counting the number of stockings made during 1925. Of the 103,707,336 dozen pairs made then, 50,402,000 dozen were entirely of cotton; of about 39,000,000 dozen pairs of half hose, 21,000,000 dozen were of cotton. And, proudly noted the Association, cotton had to be used to reenforce the tops, toes and heels of two-thirds of the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stockings | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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