Author: William Haynes
Year Published: 1946
Year Printed: 1946
Date Acquired: September 9, 2014
Where Purchased: Bound to Be Read, Atlanta, GA
Price Paid: $10
Read Status: Read (September 28, 2014)
Notes/Thoughts
- This book provides an interesting historical look at the South's resources and how they were being utilized in the 1940s including recent discoveries at the time and what was currently being researched.
- One of the main focuses is on cotton including mentioning how crimped cotton bandages were a new development that came out of the secret research for the military. The discussion on cotton's future even included a quote that sound very much like today's The Fabric of Our Lives ads.
- "I can conceive that a few years hence woman may be boastful that they are wearing sheer cotton undies, luxury fabrics made out of cotton" (p. 51)
- One of the other parts that I found most interesting was the discussion on ramie, which sounded promising at the time Southern Horizons was written. In doing a little further research online, it seems that it still has not gained wide use despite it's superior strength because the processing is still complex and thus expensive. However, it was one of the main crops used in plant-derived plastics for Toyota Prius vehicles.
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