Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went...
Such also is silk. Last week, however, the U. S. awarded Patent No. 2,130,948 to the late W. H. Carothers, former chemist for E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...apparel trade, which had for some time heard rumors of the new Du Pont product under the name of Fibre 66, believed it might prove the first practical process for manufacturing synthetic silk entirely from chemicals...
When rayon appeared it was at first hoped that it would completely replace silk as raw material. It never did because, among other reasons, it lacked silk's elasticity (a rayon stocking, for example, wrinkles instead of clinging to the knee and sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell the difference at a glance). The new fibre (made of complex nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that...
Printed on fine paper the original scroll was six feet, eight inches long, and two feet, 5-16 inches in width, but years of deterioration have reduced it to a mere fragment of three feet in length. It was remounted, when discovered, on a substantial silk cloth...