Word: rayons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian delegation got no tickets for the opening. The flag flown for Lebanon was wrong. Britain's sprightly Ellen Wilkinson had hoped to buy kitchenware, discovered that she would be unable to carry the extra weight by air, and settled for rayon stockings. The French complained of boredom. A secretary from the French consulate tried to scare up some French-speaking dinner and dancing partners among the women employes of the City of Paris department store...
...each carrier plane's air-sea rescue kit is a Celanese rayon-acetate map, printed on a salt-and-sun-proof pocket handkerchief...
...King Cotton tottering on his throne? In the worried South, researchers preparing for the coming postwar battle with rayon and other synthetic upstarts have been hard at work experimenting with likelier strains, new methods of machine cultivation (TIME, Nov. 13). Last week they heard good news : a Georgia State Experiment Station has developed a "super cotton" which may give the king new life. The new strain, called "Empire...
...Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries: a new synthetic-wool fiber, called Ardil, made from peanuts. Cheaper than sheep's wool, Ardil can be mixed with wool, cotton or rayon, is shrinkproof, mothproof, woolly-warm...
...suits next summer, and a reduction in woolen goods for all civilians next winter. Deepest cut will come in blankets, women's wool suits and dresses, men's suits and overcoats, underwear and socks. The worsted and woolen shortage will increase demands for cotton and rayon, thus will affect the entire supply of clothing...