Word: lint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable savings in the industry was demonstrated by the Hunt Loom & Machine Works of Greenville, S.C. Using oil-impregnated bushings and nylon gears, the loom needs no lubrication, thus eliminates the oil and grease stains usually splattered by conventional looms, and has an overhead blower system that sucks up lint and fluff. With 55 fewer parts than an ordinary loom, it cuts the cost of replacing parts 70% (as much as $3,000 a week in a 2,000-loom mill), shaves the cost of cleaning a loom from $90 to $60 a year. Hunt already has orders for more...
What keeps The Revenge for Love from sharing the same shelf as Darkness at Noon is not lack of skill. It is the moral lint from Lewis' erstwhile infatuation with Hitler. References to Australian aborigines as "Blackboys," Hindus as "Baboos," and the Jews martyred by Nazi Germany as "offending Jews," shows that while Wyndham Lewis was rocking the cradle of humanism with one hand, he was cradling a rock of bigotry in the other...
Dust Up. Daycon Products Inc. of Washington, D.C. began sales of Endust, a chemical that when sprayed on floor mops coagulates dust for house cleaners. It forms dust into small balls of lint which can be easily shaken off the mop on to a newspaper. Price...
...South's industrial revolution had begun-but in the ugly classical pattern that was set a century before in the textile mills of England. Cotton mills moved south to take advantage of hand-to-mouth labor conditions. The "lint-heads," as cotton-mill workers were called, huddled together in drab mill villages, chronically in debt to the company store. They worked a 55-to 60-hour week for around $15 (as compared with a 48-to 54-hour week in New England for about...
That cab driver is a valuable piece of property, Mr. Editor, hang on to him like serge to lint...