Typed captions: "Can't wait: After waiting for hours to buy nylons after they went on sale post World War II, this young woman couldn't wait to get home to put them on." "Royal welcome home was given nylon as it made its post-war appearance in...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Electricity; Plastics industry; Metallurgical industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: Tallow dips to electric lights; The salesmen's shadows; Cavalcade makes its TV debut; Blast to blast furnace; When the oil barrel was king; DuPont notes; Land revolution in ceylon; Metals from powder; What's new; Focus on...
Table of Contents: Pampering the powerful pods; Getting a line on heat secrets; Suiting up the rangers; Gold mining at homestake; Fabrics with a flair for fashion; The long journey of the air spring; Cocoons for the moon men; Parts pressed while...
Table of Contents: Starting another year; A klunker gets its face lifted; Colorful new floors; How's your old straw hat; Some wait, others dust and spray; Eating in the open; Mining with lump coal C; Summer highlights; Garnering garnets with a...
While it would be possible to fly the Lockheed Constellation across the country non-stop in less than 9 hours, in actual scheduled service-allowing for one stop-it coud carry this group from Los Angeles to New York in less than 10 hours. This...
Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
Hendrick writes to say the trial of the pump they sent was unsatisfactory. Hendrick is returning the pump to them. He apologizes for the length of time it took him to contact them, but the trial had to wait on the new boiler that had been ordered...
Written on back: "Standees at Scruggs Vandervoort Barney style show of 'Everglaze' cottons by Everfast wait for appearance of Miss America 1955, Lee Meriwether, making guest appearance."
Text from back of image: "Like a weary seagulll, the 10-P-1, flagship of the Navy's squadron of six giant seaplanes which flew from San Francisco to Honolulu, comes to rest on the blue waters of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, after its 24 hour flight...
Text from back of image: "Amy Johnson and her husband, James Mollison, England's most famous flying couple, have taken their plane, 'Seafarer' to Cardiff to wait there for an improvement in weather conditions over the Atlantic before taking off on...
