Word: rayonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Where food is sufficient, the biggest lack is clothing. For silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
...Heard Alabama's cotton-conscious Bankhead rail against the menace of rayon ("We can't let 3,000,000 families in the South face starvation"). ¶ Decided to decline, with regret, an invitation to Congressmen to visit the British Parliament. Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Connally said he would ask for a "rain check...