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After four years Challis returned to the U.S. bent on creating a type of harpsichord powerful enough to be heard in large U.S. concert halls. He introduced many improvements into harpsichord manufacture, utilized modern materials like bakelite, aluminum and nylon. "I am not an antiquarian," he explains, "my idea is simply to carry on the manufacturing of harpsichords where it left off when the instrument went out of popularity at the end of the 18th Century...
...Sales of ersatz coffee and "extenders," which boomed during rationing, dropped to almost nothing-probably an advance tip on what will happen to things like rayon stockings when war ends and silk and nylon are available again...
...Pont's preview of some nylon products...
...Paint brushes (it lasts three times as long as pig bristles). Du Pont believes that nylon will be standard in tooth and hair brushes...
...Tubing, for which nylon is extruded like macaroni...