This photograph which is the most remarkable marine picture ever made stands alone in a class by itself. It shows a condition at sea never before pictured by the camera. That the crew of the sinking vessel ever escaped at all is as remarkable as...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Explosives industry;
Table of Contents: Spinning dreams into yarn; Birth of a fiber; Cinderella's slipper is plastic now; Taming static; Timber is for a gold mine; Alcohol and paper do mix; Lost in the laboratory; The pop that pays; Tri: the double-duty solvent; New...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Paint industry; Textile industry; Nylon; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Color sells itself; White is white white; Atomic canaries; The culture of the businessman; Golden cargo; The automatic suit; big boom on the Mesabi; Colorado's Don Quixote of business; Meanwhile, back and the plant; Wild west...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Solar energy; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Nylon; Tire industry; Mining;
Table of Contents: Focus on the sun; Introducing: paint that stalls fire; Safety underfoot; Cellophane's sparkling future; Heyday for hosiery; Talk about tires; A short year and a long view; I drilled the Lucas gusher; Mylar is in the memory...
Table of Contents: What stimulates packaging progress; Stretch plus strength; Why the crowd stops; A big year and bright prospects; Bright new faces for U.S. shoppers; Boat refinishing; Papermakers trim pigment waste; Cold facts for a cool...
Table of Contents: Lost horizon: a fashion find; 37 bridges to Key West; Boom at the bottom; California trend-setter; Making a name for itself; The sand of trail ridge; Handwriting on the wall; More than a matter of taste; What's new;
Table of Contents: From air, water and coal; Industry's winged heels lead on to a new world; The man-made Caterpillar; A curtain call for Cellophane; Restoring our disappearing farm lands; More about decorative fabrics; Carving roads in Oahu;...
Frank Rich of New York City, General Chairmen of the Atlantic States Shippers Advisory Council; J. Howard Pew of Chester PA, President of the Sun Oil Company and B.G. Budd Philadelphia, President of the Budd Manufacturing Company (Left to Right)....
Delivers message with its goods. This gaily painted truck delivers insecticides and weed killers in Chicago's Loop twice a day. To create more business for itself, it tells Chicagoans and nearby residents just what it is carrying. The starboard...
Delivers message with its goods. This gaily painted truck delivers insecticides and weed killers in Chicago's Loop twice a day. To create more business for itself, it tells Chicagoans and nearby residents just what it is carrying. The starboard...
Formed halves of the bomber nose are cemented together with acrylic resin, the same resin of which the Plexiglas sheets are originally made, Here a workmen is trimming the edges of a bombardiers door end the gun-mount hole so that the necessary...
The Boeing 707 prototype, Americas first jet transport, lifted from the Renton municipal airport runway adjacent to The Boeing Company plant where it was built as thousands of spectators watched, some from the roofs of nearby buildings. Ushering in...
On Plymouth new 1940 convertible coupe the top raises or lowers itself by vacuum power from the engine when the driver touches a control button. This year's model has auxiliary seats for extra passengers inside the car for better weather...
For photographing the human voice and reproducing it, not as a picture but as the actual sound of the voice itself, a new device known as the Pallo-Photo-Phone has been perfected by Charles A. Hoxie of the General Electric Company. It is regarded...
Taken from New York Herald, U.S. Merchant Marine Supplement; Text from image: "A Nation Must Control its Overseas Commerce -- No nation can be really great that does not control its overseas commerce. The upbuilding and operation of ships are...
Probably the most dramatic moment in DuPont research history is re-enacted above-the birth of the first completely synthetic fiber, impractical for commercial use but true forerunner of nylon itself. Here chemist Julian Hill shows how he pulled...
This spun nylon sweater, soft and warm as fine wool, has the advantage of not shrinking when laundered. Short lengths of the synthetic fiber are spun into soft fuzzy threads to produce a woolly effect. Introduced on a small scale before the war,...
Here is how a fabric processed with a water repellent will react toward globules of water. Not only is the design attractive in itself but it clearly shows the practicability of a water repellent treatment. Material processed with DuPont Aridex or...
I couldnt sleep. I went down into the sitting room of the farmhouse. I sat in my fathers old chair. Slowly I began to realize that this old house was more than just a house, that our old farm was more than just a farm. The farm itself gave me the...
