Word: rayon
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...Bank of America closed deals for three new factories-a rayon mill, a hosiery mill and a suit manufacturing plant...
General Allen, a professional soldier who prefers combat to conferences, modestly honked that chief credit for this improvement should go to rayon-smooth naval Captain Harry Butcher, ex-CBS radio executive, aide and close companion of General Eisenhower. For himself, Honk Allen claimed only to have used a field soldier's methods to help clean up a mess...
...silverfish. This swift, slithery, scaly insect, less than half an inch long, is an old inhabitant of forests, where it nests under stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish can go as long as ten months without food...
Even if the Bembergs should lose all their Argentine holdings, they would not starve. The family has enormous investments abroad. In the U.S. the Bemberg holdings include a sizable share in the Liebmann Breweries of Brooklyn (Rheingold beer). According to one of its responsible officers, American Bemberg Corp. (rayon) has no connection with the Argentine Bembergs...
...Mechanical cotton pickers are already successful, mechanical cultivators are being developed, mechanization of cotton culture seems inevitable. So does diversification. Special varieties of cotton may be grown for seed and oil, others for linters to feed the rayon industry, which may thus become an ally rather than a competitor of cotton...