Word: rayonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bugs in the Belfry Sirs: The cockroach that invaded The Bronx (TIME, Aug. 2) not only flies and is fond of beer, but is equally fond of rayon, insulation from wires and the goo from radio resistors...
...Rome, as a city of war industry, had aircraft, chemical and rayon factories, power plants, locomotive-repair yards...
...machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good Democrat, looked, nodded. His constituents are exasperated by bureaucratic bungling, are solidly behind Congress in its fights with the President, but as good Southern Democrats will not revolt from the Party or the President...
Slipshod tests had been conducted, the Committee reported, under the auspices of military men drafted from the Big Four rubber companies. But even these tests had proved "cotton cord the equal of rayon in most sizes of synthetic rubber tires in the latest tests. Rayon has displayed no superiority over cotton to warrant the great investment in critical materials now being made to produce facilities for rayon cord...
With a long political look ahead, the Committee gloomed: "The effect of the War Department predilection for rayon . . . will be a disaster to ... the South...