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...1920s the company moved to less martial fields by buying the French-owned rights to a transparent cellulose thought to be of small value because it broke up in water; Du Pont found a way to waterproof it, called it Cellophane and revolutionized packaging. Du Font's growing group of scientists followed up with a series of breakthroughs: the first commercial U.S. synthetic rubber, the first nitrogen synthetic fertilizer, and the first synthetic fiber -nylon, which now comes in 450 varieties and rings up some $500 million in yearly sales for the company...
Ehrenburg is equally vague about himself. He expresses few of his own thoughts, has scarcely any explanation for the abrupt shifts in his career. A confirmed skeptic in the 1920s, he was dubbed "the caraboid," the name of a beetle which ejects a fine stinging spray. In his early novels, Julio Jurenito and The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, Ehrenburg mocked Right and Left, capitalism and Communism (when Roitschwantz was republished in the U.S. in 1960, it was much to his embarrassment). But in the 1930s, he became a militant Communist, began cranking out "social realism" clinkers that glorified...
Died. Fred Cole, 63, California swimsuit designer who in the 1920s broke away from the drab, all-covering "woollies" of the day with low-backed, rainbow-colored bathing suits, went on to pioneer, with curve-clinging Lastex fabric, the bare midriff and the two-piece suit, but never countenanced the bikini; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
There is still an awful lot of coffee in Brazil, but there seem to be fewer and fewer customers for it. Since the 1920s, when Brazil supplied 80% of the world's coffee, the country's share of the market has steadily declined. While warehouses are bulging with beans, stevedores in Santos and other big coffee ports nowadays lounge about playing cards. This year Brazil will probably not be able to find buyers for its allotted export quota of 18 million bags, or 37% of the world market. The main problem: an inflexible policy of too-high coffee...
...vases." But tastes change. The art-nouveau revival dates from 1952, when London's Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art launched the rediscovery...