Word: resinous
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...Hubert Humphrey; the impact of the glamorous and numerous Kennedy family on a startled nation; the surge of Stevenson's forces and the taut control in the Kennedy camp at the Los Angeles convention. Then it is the Republicans' turn, and Dick Nixon steps onto the resin. There is the anguish of the Vice President, halted at the very beginning of his campaign, in the midst of his triumphant tour of the South, by a staphylococcus infection, and there is the bathos of his speech in Centralia, Ill., recalling the story of how his father decided...
Many a new product spawns other new products as it jolts older competitors into fresh efforts to improve their lines. When the textile industry threatened to turn to the new synthetic fibers, the cottonmakers developed resin treatments to make cotton wash-and-wear. Polypropylene, one of the newest and cheapest of the petroleum plastics, is now putting the pressure on more expensive cellophane. Produced as a fiber, it promises to make the best no-ironing blend of cloth. Laverne's "invisible" chairs are made of the plastic, make any room look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored...
...getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding on resin and felt in the water purifying system...
...pages of testimony), the FTC issued a cease-and-desist order, only to have it tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals. After an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ordered further hearings, the FTC tried again in 1956. The pills, compounded chiefly of podophyllin (resin of dried root of the mayapple plant) and aloes (dried juice of the aloe plant), still do not stimulate liver bile, said...
WATERPROOF MONEY will be issued by Japanese Finance Ministry to save $360 million face value in currency damaged each year by water. New notes will have synthetic resin mixed into pulp, will withstand the washing machine...