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Word: plastically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lately moribund business is large-scale production of compact, streamlined pianos adapted in size and style to modern apartments and retailing at about $225 up, some $100 less than the old units. No. i innovation are Wurlitzer consoles finished in "Kordevon," a cloth covered with ten coats of the plastic, pyroxylin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Swing & Upswing | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Testifying against the Wagner Health Bill on the grounds that it might loose a flood of needless Government-given medical care, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, rhetorically demanded: "Shall there be also plastic surgery at public expense for all degrees of lop ears or a saddle nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Another communication gadget, announced last week in the U. S.: a recording device which transcribes verbal memoranda, conferences, speeches on lightweight plastic discs resembling cellophane. These records can be folded and mailed in ordinary envelopes; two records lasting ten minutes each will go anywhere in the U. S. for 3?. The transcribing machines are also equipped to reproduce. Makers: General Communication Products of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Memophone | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Besides having acquired a considerable reputation as a motormaker and collector of antiques, Henry Ford looms very large in the U. S. "chemurgic" movement, which explores and promotes industrial use of agricultural products. Example: use of casein, a compound which occurs in milk, to make plastics and fabrics. Another of Mr. Ford's preoccupations is soybeans, which can be grown cheaply almost anywhere, yield oil for automobile lacquers, meal for plastic parts like horn buttons. Incidentally, soybeans are nutritious and soybean preparations figure prominently in Mr. Ford's present diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mr. Ford's Necktie | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

This week, indicative of the plastic industry's continuing pleasant prospects, Chicago Molded is floating a $500,000 debenture issue, $100,000 of which will be used in bonds or in cash to retire its 7% preferred stock. Purpose of the public offering: to retire all outstanding loans, add a modest $120,000 to working capital and plant improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Plastic Prospects | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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