Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When butadiene is polymerized with styrene the result is Buna-S, developed in Germany but since improved by Standard Oil (of N.J.). Styrene itself has no relation whatever to natural rubber. It is made from benzene, principally by the Dow and Monsanto companies, and gives an excellent crystal-clear plastic when polymerized by itself. Combined with butadiene in Buna-S, the product is high in tensile strength and resistant to abrasion. In some tests it has proved distinctly superior to natural rubber in wearing qualities. (Some Buna-S truck tires have lasted over 50,000 miles.) The Baruch plan calls...
Publisher Elias Manchester Boddy of the Los Angeles Daily News gazes at no crystal and reads no stars. But when the National Recovery Act went into effect in 1933, Boddy wrote: "It will eventually be thrown out." When the Wagner Act was passed, he said: "Labor regards [it] as a Magna Charta, whereas it will prove to be merely a license for a nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will...
...passion was soap bubbles. His grandfather, the great Pre-Raphaelite Painter John Everett Millais, one day bribed little Willie to pose for him in exchange for hearing a fairy tale. An excellent likeness, the painting was finished in several weeks -minus soap bubbles. Those were painted from less evanescent crystal spheres...
...Tylertown's biggest day; it was also the biggest day in the life of bony, dynamic Lester Williams, 40, editor of the weekly Tylertown Times. Williams got the idea for the community thanksgiving one morning at a revival service conducted by Brother Jim Sells, a Methodist preacher from Crystal Springs. For the great day, proud Editor Williams' Times (circ. 2,350) appeared in a special edition of 56 pages...
...Jeffers sounded off: "This means I have a tough job but it is also a job for all the people of the United States. The biggest stockpile of rubber we have is on the wheels of our automobiles. . . . It seems to me this situation is just as clear as crystal. We are going to do it; and the American people are going to accept.* I have no axes to grind, political or otherwise. We do not need talk, we need action...