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...Pont is cooking up surprises in nylon. So far nylon has been used mainly as a fiber - for stockings, toothbrushes, parachutes, aircraft tire cords, surgical sutures. But nylon is also a plastic of parts. Last week Du Pont reported some recent experiments with nylon as a solid plastic which would seem to indicate that after the war it may become almost as common and versatile an article as glass...
...Nylon will have many plastic competitors. But it combines advantages of the two general types of plastics: as a thermoplastic it can be resoftened and reworked, but like thermosetting plastics, it is relatively resistant to heat. Its softening point is 450°F. (most thermoplastics melt at about 160°F.). Nylon is also exceedingly light and tough, easily machined, impervious to oil, grease and the action of most solvents...
Romantic notes: Bob Sherwood still writing nasty notes to that chamber maid about misplacing his unmentionables. But there's nothing real between them, cause he really has a "one and only", in New York of all places. The Lima Bean girl at Cowie has promised Oliver Wilson a seamless nylon hairnet for his unruly locks. Because Mrs. Betey Brown says we shouldn't, and we're mad at her because she won't guest-write our column even once, we will say that Wally Notter's daughter looks too bee-eutiful for to be a boy, although...
...Nylon monafilaments, once strung on tennis racquets and stretched between hook & line as fishing leaders, are now used as surgical sutures...
...mobile smoke-generator which vomits white clouds large enough to conceal whole cities has been developed by General Electric. The process is still secret. > Paper parachutes for loads up to 50 lb. are replacing expensive chutes of scarce silk and nylon. The Civil Air Patrol drops food, serum and other emergency supplies with tough, crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile...