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...advertising signs or red warning strips on car bumpers. Among the thousands of other products are lithographic plates for the printing industry, 350 varieties of wrapping ribbons, ceramic pipes and parts, concrete, synthetic rubber, furniture polish, and a line of fluorochemicals to make ordinary paper both water and oilproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: The Bottomless Hat | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...ordinarily sold as hog & cattle feed at 2? per lb.-by extracting it with solvents, purifying and precipitating it. The resultant plastic, soluble in both paint solutions and water, is a sort of cross between casein and bakelite. Uses: buttons, laminated boards, high-speed printing ink ingredient, waterproof and oilproof varnish for paper. Mazein got into commercial production six months ago. Last fortnight for the first time it was spun into fibres, resembling wool fibres, which have not yet been fully tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Chemurgy | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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