Word: corncob
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...said that of all the gifts he got, Arthur's handmade one pleased him most. The gift, which will give the general ample space for resting his famed corncob pipes and extra-long cigarette holders: a five-sided wooden ashtray...