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Word: plastically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he could sit back and smile as sheets of lignin plastic, made from the residue after vanillin had been extracted, rolled off the machines. Marathon officials described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...cheapest plastic material ever made, priced at 5? a pound in tonnage quantities (compared with 15? to 50? a pound for most other plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Marathon is now producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler's (President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer ad calendar. Not so in the new Germany. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Leda and Leader | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother to Son | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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