Word: mildew
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...nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew off The Red Mill. Hence the show is an amiable relic. It is frankly a horsecar- not a horsecar pretending...
Developed by Department of Agriculture chemists, the new "acetylated" cotton looks like the ordinary variety but is chemically treated to increase resistance to rot and mildew. Promised: rotproof cotton awnings, tents, fish nets, food bags...
...cane, wood, and other fibrous vegetable matter made possible the production in 1944 of about 638 million gallons of alcohol-grain and wood. But the yeasts are only one group of the microbic multitude able to perform specific jobs. Bacteria resembling the bacilli of human ailments and molds like mildew have also been put to work in industry...
Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Donald Howard Powers, the 43-year-old Princeton graduate who achieved these homely miracles, shrugged them off as only a beginning. He has already developed other chemicals which double the wear of wool and cotton, make textiles mildew-proof...
...Puratized Process, in six variations, is being sold to some 150 processors of textiles, leather, etc., who end up with mildew-proof mosquito netting, rubber life rafts, webbing, boots, etc. for the Army & Navy. It is so potent, Frank Sowa figures, that 200 gallons would mildew-proof all the shoes in the U.S. Army...