Word: rustproofing
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...Tsitsin thinks he almost has it-his No. 34,085 meets most specifications. This strain, a cross between wheat and couch grass grows summer or winter, is drought-and rustproof, pollenizes itself, thrives even in salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have...
...sporting-goods dealers by declaring their balls were too full of felt and the wrong color. He had the balls dyed robin's-egg blue for better visibility. On the day of the tournament he put on his white ducks and special hat (it had "large squares of rustproof screening on it for ventilation"), took over the jobs of checker, referee, games announcer, scorer. Since he liked crowds and policemen, the tournament presented Father with "an ideal problem . . . the crowds would come to watch the match and the police would come to watch the crowds...
...such as pink satin walls, pink lilies and pink soapsuds fountain in the swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make a rustproof paint preparation in 1914 with nothing but "a bucket, a broomstick and a good idea," built up a $1,250,000 business with branches in Detroit and Walkerville...
...were expensive. Horn was brittle. Iron and steel bones rusted so quickly that one or two washings made the corset as ugly as it was uncomfortable. So in 1894 the Warner Brothers, working with Worcester's American Steel & Wire Co. (now part of U. S. Steel), presented the rustproof steel corset rib. It revolutionized the boning business, made whale-bones obsolete...
Last week in Detroit concrete figures about past profits-those of the seven years 1917-24-were hauled into court. The Parker Rustproof Co. is asking royalties of about $1,000,000 from the Ford people for the supposed infringement of patent in the use of a rustproofing process. The Ford company claims that the process was never used as a selling inducement and wishes to pay only established royalties...