Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Ford chemurgic laboratory at Dearborn displayed pride in a promising new fabric from soybean meal -said to be the first textile made from a vegetable protein.* Mr. Ford was presented with a tasteful necktie one-third of which was woven from the soybean fabric, the rest of silk and wool. Protein is extracted from soybean meal in saline solution, then mixed with other chemicals to make a viscous liquid, which is squirted into hair-sized filaments. The spun thread has a pleasant feel, fairly good tensile strength, takes dyes readily. Its intended use: automobile upholstery...
...Three races for three-year-olds.† Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats. A notorious Derby jinx had plagued the Rosebery silks ever since 1905 when the present Earl's father, onetime Prime Minister of England, won his third and last Derby...
...like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...
Bulls had, last week, two isolated spurts in production to argue for their optimism: 1) in the third week of May automobile production increased from 72,000 to 80,000 cars; they hoped that after the strike at Briggs Manufacturing Co. last week, production would resume its higher trend; 2 ) reports that large steel orders had been placed during May's steel price flurry (TIME, May 22) and a recovery in the steel rate...
...coal tie-up accounted for about one-third of the decline (see chart...