Word: lacquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanically. It need be dry and dangerous for only a short time. Nitrocellulose, immersed in ten times its bulk of water, is liquefied by various chemicals, among them ethyl acetate, much used in nail polish. The liquid nitrocellulose rises to the surface of the water as a creamy lacquer. Stirring breaks it into globules, like olive oil in salad dressing. Other chemicals keep the tiny pellets separate. Speed of stirring determines the size of the grains of powder...
Worst news was that business was terrific, would soon be super-terrific. A.T.A's. figure-minded, mustachioed General Manager Charles Gordon clambered on to the speaker's platform in the ornate Red Lacquer Room, bluntly told fidgety delegates what to expect: 20 billion passengers a year by October, 22 billion by December - a 30% increase over 1941's 17 billion. And after the Baruch rubber conservation scheme hit the headlines, Gordon upped his estimate to 24½ billion...
...good ideas in the first 500 suggestions to hit the jackpot with cumulative savings of 2,000 man-hours a day-enough to build seven big bombers in a year. A new tooling gadget for milling wing spars cut off 15-20 hours; a woman war worker in the lacquer department figured out how to save 90 woman-hours...
...From milk. Chemist Paul D. Watson of the Department of Agriculture has developed a lacquer excellently suited to cans of evaporated and condensed milk (largest canned food) and for large milk-shipping cans. It is made of lactic acid (from fermented whey) plus small amounts of vegetable...
Serigraph, or Silk-Screen Print (TIME, Nov. 11, 1940), printed through a stencil which has been built up with glue or lacquer on a semitransparent silk screen. Pigment, oozing through the silk, creates a meshlike, colorful surface...