Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...thousands of light, near-collision-proof plastic automobiles ever roll on U. S. highways, a notion and a man should get the glory. The notion was Henry Ford's: that man should go back to the land, that the use of agricultural products in industry should be multiplied. The man is stoutish, balding Robert Allen Boyer, a chemist who looks older than his 31 years, has silver hairs among the brown...
Recently Boyer needed a 1,000-ton steel press (about the size of a ten-story building) for his plastics experiments. So Ford conspired with him to "steal" one of three giant presses then being delivered to the Production Department, had it sidetracked for Boyer's exclusive use...
With much ceremonial ado, "Ambassador" Pierson announced from Buenos Aires last month that the Export-Import Bank was lending Argentina $20,000,000 for any use she might want to put it to in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 7). Since Argentina needed industrial equipment and supplies for her new 1,000,000,000-peso arms program, Pierson's announcement seemed to forecast a new era of U. S.-Argentine cooperation...
...corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three, or only...
Once formed, Ford's plastic has not the tensile strength of steel, hence will not be used for frame, chassis or motor blocks. But sheets account for half the steel that goes into modern automobiles. If Ford's plastic bodies become universal, total U. S. use of steel may be cut 10%. Worried, steelmen sent a long-nosed research committee to Dearborn last month, have not peeped since...