Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> A dinner dress made of glass fibre.
> A day dress made of casein, protein ingredient of milk.
> Lignin plastics and vanillin made from sulphite liquor, onetime waste product of the wood-pulp paper industry.
> Sodium hexametaphosphate, 16 lbs. of which in 1,000,000 gals, of water will prevent scale formation in pipes.
> Nitroparaffms. Last spring Chemist Henry Bohn Hass of Purdue announced production of two new explosives, "nibglycerol trinitrate" and "nibglycol dinitrate," by combining steam, nitrogen from air, methane and ethane from natural gas (TIME, April 17). Now dozens of other nitroparaffins similarly formed are available for making plastics, dyes, textiles, cosmetics...