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...Eastman Kodak, Monsanto Chemical and Union Carbide and Carbon.* These manufacturers do no molding, sell their plastics to other companies to be shaped. The molders, in turn-excepting those like Westinghouse and General Electric, which use the products in their own business-sell their finished plastic products to the toothbrush, automobile, radio manufacturers...
...week the scenes at the White House were magnificently and typically Rooseveltian- swarms of children, hundreds of presents, a reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol by the paterfamilias, a parade of family & guests to his bedside early Christmas morning to open stockings. Presents ranged from the soap and toothbrush traditionally stuffed in Franklin Roosevelt's stocking, to paperweights with the Presidential seal for all the office staff (to match paper cutters and ash trays he gave them in other years...
This week Weco Products Co. (Dr. West's) marketed the first toothbrush with synthetic bristles replacing the standard hog bristles imported from northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter...
...Also returning from Europe, Lawyer Benjamin Cohen of the White House Janizariat was besieged by newshawks, insisted he had had nothing but vacation. When the newshawks eyed his bulging briefcase he declared its contents: not State papers, but the Cohen pajamas and toothbrush...
...toothbrush with a rubber bulb on the handle, for rinsing the teeth while brushing...