Word: rayons
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...Recovery of copper from rayon mill wastes, and of many metals from mine and industrial wastes...
...contemplated are only a drop in the bucket compared to total U.S. supplies. But in Manhattan the retail trade was buzzing with known purchases of 150,000 pairs of $4 & $5 men's and women's shoes and rumored purchases of 3,000,000 yards of rayon. In terms of current and threatened civilian shortages in the U.S., such sudden subtractions from the market are not a drop in the bucket-if for no other reason than that they can once again throw the none-too-good Government estimates of domestic civilian supply galley-west...
...cellulose for fodder has increased to 500,000 tons per year so that an increase of 40% in wood-pulp production is needed to supply the paper and rayon industries...
...kind of back talk Congress got from World War I's tough Supplyman Charles G. Dawes-came this week from Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers. The Senate Agriculture Committee, loaded with cotton Senators, called him on the carpet. His crime was that he had planned to expand rayon production to get enough fabric for military tires-instead of substituting cotton, which is likely to overheat. Jeffers promptly threw the carpet over his hecklers' heads...
...Well, somebody is going to have to do something to stop me," cried angry William Jeffers. "Otherwise I am going to authorize rayon because I think it is the best thing to do and I am not being influenced by anyone...