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Wearing a green nylon flight jacket, with a frayed cigar clamped in his teeth and an expression of grim satisfaction on his face, Major General Henry Hodes, one of the two U.N. subcommitteemen at Panmunjom, strode out of the conference tent. Allied newsmen trotted up eagerly. "Well," said the general, "we're agreed in principle on that thing...
Because of a shortage of corncobs,which are needed to make furfural (a chemical compound) for defense products ranging from synthetic rubber to nylon, OPS junked cob controls last week, hoping that a higher price will bring more on the market. Other items recently exempted from control: wooden haircurlers, glass ice cubes, toy bones for dogs, incense burners, wigs and toupees...
...that Du Pont" and I.C.I. be ordered to put an end to some of their remaining links (e.g., joint ownership of five companies in South America and Canada). As a further relief, Justice wanted Du Pont to give other manufacturers royalty-free use of its patents on nylon, neoprene...
...finding competition for Du Pont in these products might be hard. It took more than a year for Du Pont to find anyone who was willing to spend $20 million to go into Cellophane. Now, with the prices of nylon products dropping and the cost of building new chemical plants scooting higher, it hardly seemed likely that many would want to take the plunge...
...Nylon Glut It was a buyers' market, with a vengeance, for nylon stockings. Thrifty U.S. shoppers could buy sheerest-gauge, unbranded nylons last week for as little as 89? a pair, v. $1.20 earlier this year. Reason: when the Korean war began, shortlived scare buying caused manufacturers to turn out so many nylons that they glutted the market...