Word: productively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fibre glass, which is simply glass drawn superfine, was made in Germany as far back as 1878. But this German product was coarse, expensive, heavy, crudely made (example: a woman on a jacked-up bicycle would pedal the fibre onto the back wheel). Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. will make fibre by forcing white-hot glass through tiny orifices with a jet of steam. Resulting fibres are 2/10,000 of an inch in diameter. About 100 of them are twisted into a strand of yarn which looks and feels like wool...
...thrilling event for the cast when the curtain finally rises and the play, which is the product of so much work, anxiety, and back-stage drudgery, goes on. And tonight is an auspicious one for the Harvard Debating Council when the curtain rises on inter-House debating. This too, is the product of months, even years of labor and promotion, particularly on the part of Lawrence Ebb, president of the council. It is the high-water mark of Harvard debate in the year that the latter has come into its own, with University sponsorship and an ambitious program of radio...
...this committee has brought ridicule on itself and discredit on the practice of legislative investigation by admitting biased personal opinion to dominate its discussions. Shadow-boxing with Communism and Fascism, charges that went to the ultimate of inanity in associating subversive activity with Shirley Temple--this has been the product of what might have been a profitable investigation...
...hands and knees to play with the moppets of America: It issues the first monthly number of Jack and Jill for a predominantly illiterate public, children aged ten and under. Only addition to the roster of Curtis magazines since 1911 when the Country Gentleman was purchased, and latest product of the Curtis Co.'s ambition to service the American Family from top to bottom, the November issue of Jack and Jill (40,000 copies) runs to 48 seven-by-ten-inch pages, illustrated with single-color drawings, price...
...month ago when the U.S. granted E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. a patent on a new product known as Fibre 66, which apparently has the elasticity rayon has always lacked (TIME, Oct. 3), chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...