History Matters: Plastics

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Let There Be Bakelite Forty years ago, when “Mr. McGuire” leaned over to say “one word … just one word” to Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film The Graduate, that word—plastics—had already come to suggest everything phony and cheap in the modern world. But when “the material of a thousand uses” was invented 100 years View Website VIP Subscription

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