Word: mothproofed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...
Moths. Manhattan's Witty Bros., manufacturer and retailer of men's suits and coats, will mothproof its fall line with the "Boconize" process developed by Manhattan's Bocon Chemical Corp. Bocon says that its mothproofing will last through as many as 25 dry cleanings and five washings...
...promoted many a warehouse improvement: 1) leather-lined rooms for expensive furniture; 2) special mothproof rooms; 3) refrigerated vaults for furs. And last week he was working on a new idea he hoped would revolutionize the moving industry-an "airvan" which can be hauled to an airport as a truck trailer, and connected to a wing assembly for immediate takeoff...
...Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries: a new synthetic-wool fiber, called Ardil, made from peanuts. Cheaper than sheep's wool, Ardil can be mixed with wool, cotton or rayon, is shrinkproof, mothproof, woolly-warm...
...process was developed by a St. Paul inventor named Jose Baraquiel Calva, onetime Mexican government engineer. By treating fibers with several chemicals, including cresol, alcohol, benzol and hydrochloric acid, he converts them into a resinous plastic. The fibers can then be stiffened or softened, straightened or curled, made mothproof, shrinkproof, even waterproof...