Search Details

Word: todtenhaupt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone 46,140,000 pounds were produced last year, mostly for the paper industry. Some 20 years ago a German chemist named Todtenhaupt made a weak wool-like cloth from casein. In 1935 an Italian, Commendatore Antonio Ferretti, improved the process, which was promptly commandeered by Mussolini as one way of combatting sanctions. Snia Viscosa is now turning out almost 10,000,000 pounds of lanital a year. Having practically the same chemical composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lanital | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

| 1 |