Word: rayon
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...Englanders who work in the great Amoskeag cotton, wool and rayon mills at Manchester, N. H., came last week two welcome announcements: 1) All disputes about last winter's 5% bonus have been adjusted; 2) The company will assume responsibility for its employes' deposits in the $11,000,000 Merrimac River Savings Bank which recently closed its doors (TIME, June...
...0ther cottonseed products: rayon and paper, made from the fuzz stripped from the seed...
...crop is worth $600 per acre. Over a like period, $240 per acre would be a fair return for wheat crops. Poplars can also be grown on barren soil that now produces nothing. In addition to being valuable for papermaking, tree harvests could be sold as cellulose for rayon manufacture...
...Rayon is produced from any form of cellulose, primarily cotton. When made of wood (viscose rayon) it is treated with sodium hydroxide which reduces it to alpha cellulose. After this it is treated with carbon bisulphide. After one more step an orange-colored, syrupy liquid results which is forced through tiny holes, forming filaments, which after being treated in baths become rayon thread. From a laboratory invention, rayon has grown to be the world's third largest textile...
...Rejected tariff amendments raising rates on certain vegetable oils (49 to 26), lowering rates on rayon yarns and filaments...