Word: productions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Technical experts are confident that a total capital investment of $100,000,000 to $200,000,000-cost of one or two battleships-would be enough to put the industry into mass production in 24 months. Critical would be the price of the finished product, now three to five times more than natural rubber (about 20? a pound). But synthetics have not yet had a chance to show what they could do in mass production, might well get down to rubber's price...
...fault too, of another interloper, a big, shambling bear of a man with tousled dark hair, great beefy shoulders, a long, determined upper lip, a fast, tough mind. Wendell Lewis Willkie, 48, product of an Indiana Main Street and New York's Wall Street, was in town. The Convention had not invited him; the Convention wished he were anywhere else. On that dark Sunday afternoon Wendell Willkie was already a political phenomenon without parallel or precedent, a new face, a new force, something powerful and strange cast...
...Seeking to emulate radio, which got its first big lift from the 1924 Democratic Convention, television backers gave their product its first big play. Individual close-ups of speakers showed up well on the screen; long shots were fuzzy...
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. of Toledo is a triple-threat firm on the technological front. Inventing, buying and licensing, it has diversified its flat-glass line into 14 types of product from curved ("invisible") show windows to "glastone" building bricks. But three-fifths of L-O-F's business is selling safety glass to the automobile industry, principally General Motors...
...material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce 100% of the world's supply. Last week Armstrong Cork's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr. was glad he had a six to nine months' stock on hand. This would...