Word: perspex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged in an active struggle for U. S. sales of the best substitute for glass, in eyeglasses, binoculars, cameras and magnifying glasses, developed since Venetians invented spectacles in the 13th Century. Roehm & Haas Co. makes Plexigum, Plexiglas, Acryloid and Acrysol in Philadelphia; Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. sells Diakon and Perspex from its Manhattan office; Du Pont Viscaloid Co. makes Pontalite (TIME, Sept. 21, Dec. 28) and Lucite at Kearny...
...month ago a fast-talking, song-publishing (Isle of Capri, Serenade in the Night) Belgian named Peter Maurice Jacques Koch de Gooreynd arrived in Manhattan with a box full of Imperial Chemical's Perspex lenses. He immediately hired a publicity man and a Waldorf-Astoria suite, where he bounced lenses on the table, declared that he could sell eyeglasses for $1 or so a pair, binoculars for $2.50, cameras...