Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the reassurances of the treasure's expert Chinese guardians, who said that no amount of shaking could harm it in its 90 silk-lined steel cases, His Majesty's Government spent a jittery three days before tugs succeeded in hauling the Ranpura off its bad spot...
...pound ball of the fibre, if straightened out, would stretch from coast to coast of the U. S. A woman's undergarment made of it could be concealed in the palm of the hand. It is 150% finer than any previous rayon, 33% finer than natural silk. It was developed almost simultaneously by three manufacturers and no one has an exclusive claim...
...Rubber, silk, cellulose and certain other organic compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same...
...scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor and an expansive manner, he set himself up in the automobile bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes-cheap necklaces and silk stockings-in boxes of candy sold in Paris theatres. When the Government stopped this, on the ground that it was a lottery, he used the profits to buy the Salle Wagram, where, as an enthusiastic boxing fan, he hoped to improve the bouts...
...hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running full blast. Her possessiveness eventually became a nuisance, but at her house Reed met the man who changed his life: William ("Big Bill") Haywood, famed I.W.W. leader. When Haywood told him about the Paterson silk-mill strike, Reed went to see it himself, got arrested, spent four days in jail. That was the beginning of his revolutionary education...