Word: rayonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cotton has been artificially boosted by the cotton bloc from 12? a pound to 23?. The gap between the U.S. price and the world price has widened until now American cotton costs 6? more a pound. Result: foreign consumption of U.S. cotton has been cut in half. Moreover, rayon has moved into what's left of the market...
...label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...
...atomic X-ray picture on this page (as far as TIME knows, the first published) was taken with radioactive materials formed by the explosion of an atomic bomb. It shows a woman's rayon purse stuffed with feminine necessaries: keys, coins, a bobby pin and a bottle of nail polish. The metal clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth...
...unmoved. The Army had cut back 174,000,000 square yards of cotton, rayon and nylon fabric-a move that in itself made almost immediate reconversion of the garment industry possible. And if reconversion was possible in any line, WPB meant to start it rolling...
...women made off with all the rayon hosiery in sight, stocked up on lingerie, California sportswear. Haberdashers unexpectedly sold dozens of dark Homburgs to diplomats who wanted to look like Eden. White shirts, scarce anyway, vanished from store shelves under the visitors' onslaught. Merchants who set up translating departments found them unnecessary. The UNCIO shoppers, discriminating but disinclined to haggle, just wanted to know "how many can we have...