Word: resinous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
Research in the Museum's technical department of conservation continued on "solubility of film materials used in surface coatings of works of art, particularly combinations of oil and resin; prevention of growth of mold and micro-organisms in the paint of pictures and in the supporting materials; response of wood to atmospheric conditions and means for making it less mobile in change temperature and humidity; the relation of paint medium and paint structure to characteristics of handling or execution in pictorial design...
Unlike most commercial plastics, the Boyer sheets for automobiles look like polished steel. Test panels are 70% cellulose fibre, 30% resin binder, pressed into cloth. Alone the cloth has little strength. But several sheets heat-molded in a 1,000-ton press produce a material superior to steel in everything but tensile strength. It is 50% lighter, 50% cheaper, ten times stronger. Bent like a jackknife in a huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color...
More fertile than L-O-F's own fertile laboratories are those of the spectacular plastics industry. Nine years ago Mellon Institute presented Toledo Scales Co. with a urea-formaldehyde resin which combined the best features of two earlier plastics, cellulose acetate (translucent, colorable) and phenolic resin (heat-resistant, hard). Toledo Scales formed Plaskon Co., Inc., began using its plastics to replace the porcelain-enameled iron housing of its scales. But Plaskon's uses multiplied like rabbits, soon invaded gardens sacred to glass. Transparent, less shatterable, more easily molded than glass, some plastics are already used for airplane...
HARRIET E. RAYMOND Celluloid Corp. New York City ; True, John Hyatt pioneered plastics with the invention of Celluloid in 1868 (he was after a $10,000 prize for a synthetic billiard ball). But not until Dr. Baekeland invented non-inflammable synthetic resin did the modern plastics industry come into...