PLASTICS: Test-Tube Love Seat

Toward the close of World War I big Eastman Kodak Co. got scared. Low and uncertain were its supplies of methanol (wood alcohol), indispensable solvent of the cellulose nitrate from which photographic film was made. When peace came, Eastman set about making its wood alcohol supply secure. In doing so, it unwittingly became a pioneer in the infant field of U. S. plastics.

Kingsport, Tenn. (pop.: 11,914) lies among mountains full of Southern hardwood, not far from the coal fields of Virginia. Acquiring 40,000 acres of timber land in 1920, the No. 1 camera and film maker built a plant...

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