Word: porcelain
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...even lower "special reduction" applied to table and kitchen porcelain and tea and coffee services of German clay and make. It could mean that the great French porcelain industry was the first to be smashed to bits in converting France into a strictly agricultural nation...
Hardest hit city was Brittany's Quimper, favorite butt of French wits because of its extreme provincialism, centre since 1690 of kilns and workers supplying France with common porcelain ware, the thick soup plate, the humble pot de chambre...
...city's most crowded sector. Next morning Author Lin took a walk. He saw 10,000 homes burned or blasted; he saw people sleeping in the streets; and when he also saw a potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu (General's Temple) was cut to the ground except for a statue of Buddha sitting on his fat haunches and smiling among the cracked bricks...
...their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
...spectacular plastics industry. Nine years ago Mellon Institute presented Toledo Scales Co. with a urea-formaldehyde resin which combined the best features of two earlier plastics, cellulose acetate (translucent, colorable) and phenolic resin (heat-resistant, hard). Toledo Scales formed Plaskon Co., Inc., began using its plastics to replace the porcelain-enameled iron housing of its scales. But Plaskon's uses multiplied like rabbits, soon invaded gardens sacred to glass. Transparent, less shatterable, more easily molded than glass, some plastics are already used for airplane windshields. Toledo Scales' big neighbor, L-O-F, feared automobile windows would be next...