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shortages of materials and discovery of synthetic materials
are either partially or wholly made of synthetic materials;
or they have been treated with synthetic materials to make
them crease-resisting, moth-proof, or water-repellant.
Our American homes today are vastly different from
those of the cave-dwellers and tents of the nomads. With
the population gathering is masses in the cities, new com-
plications such as health and sanitary conditions have
arisen and must be coped with. The early Americans, with
their vast forests and other natural sources of materials
to draw upon, saw no need for conservation. Therefore they
did as we of today are doing in the natural gas situation:
they wantonly destroyed or allowed to be destroyed their
forests and abundant supplies of natural resources. So
when today this generation needs materials with which to
build, furnish, and fit our homes and industrial and
business establishments in the intricate way which our
living conditions demand, we are of necessity having to
turn to synthetic materials.
In the progressive era we are living in, the things
that were the greatest luxuries only a short while ago are
necessities today. Synthetics or plastics are not only
taking the place of other materials, but are finding their
own place in the manufacture of building materials and
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Sealy, Emma L. Plastics, Their History and Use, thesis, August 1946; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699452/m1/5/?q=%22History%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .