Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass make some 90% of U. S. plate glass. They split this lion's share about evenly, 'but Libbey-Owens-Ford is the leader in safety glass production. Safety glass is made by sticking two ordinary sheets of glass together with a plastic binder. When struck, safety glass shatters like ordinary glass, but the binder holds the pieces in place, prevents flying fragments. Libbey-Owens-Ford sells so much safety glass for motor cars that it is almost an automobile accessory company. In 1931, it paid General Motors...
Dead or alive, the vast majority of criminals are identified by facial appearance and fingerprints. But the Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery has been shown cases where tinkering with bones and flesh has completely altered facial appearance. And smart wrongdoers like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton...
...station, watched a gardener wet a fat man with a hose. Today Auguste Lumière is dead and Louis tinkers with cameras and projectors for "three dimensional cinema." In another 40 years Europe and the President of France may or may not again honor Lumière whose plastic cinema productions until recently required the spectator to wear goggles with tinted lenses to get the stereoscopic effect, must still be looked at through a colored glass screen...
...Yankee clipper. Most famed U. S. soy-bean user is Henry Ford, devout believer in manufacturing as an outlet for agricultural products. In 20 small, scattered factories. Ford has been making a hard, easily cleaned enamel from the bean oil, and from the bean meal, such molded plastic parts as horn buttons, gear lever caps, dash panels and distributor covers. This year Ford will use the crop from 61,500 soy-bean acres...
...before the War. Coarse, heavy paper still accounts for nearly one-third'of Brown's business but its trade fame now rests on pulps. In 1924 its research chemist developed a highly-purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last of its original lumber business...