Word: nylon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk stocks (now about two months' supply) would have doubled. But knitters and weavers, reflecting that a war with Japan would last longer than four months. noted that Du Pont was speeding its nylon plant expansion and intensified the buying rush. Some importers had to turn orders down...
Parachutes. Promising to end U. S. dependence on silk (and Japan) for chutes, Buffalo's Irving Air Chute Co. last week delivered an experimental order of chutes made from Du Font's synthetic nylon...
...Women's stockings made of Du Pont's synthetic nylon recently went on general sale in the U. S. (TIME, May 27). Meanwhile, the company has kept on making nylon more versatile, finding new tricks to do with it. Du Pont has been assigned patents on: 1) a "sulfone" nylon which is especially resistant to acids and alkalies; 2) a nylon resembling wool, made by mechanically crimping the fibres; 3) a method of pre-shrinking nylon fibres...
...canceling minimum wholesale prices on the hose. Warned by recent U. S. Supreme Court rulings against Ethyl Gasoline Corp. and against twelve oil companies for fixing prices, Du Pont went further. The company waived all labeling requirements and announced that from now on any stocking maker could buy nylon yarn without a license...
Welcome as this was to unlicensed manufacturers, they knew that their chances of getting much of the synthetic yarn were slim. For the big Du Pont plant at Seaford, Del. can turn out in the next twelve months only enough yarn for about 5,000,000 dozen pairs of nylon stockings-10% of the annual women's silk hose demand. A second plant, now building, will not swing into full production for a year. Discouraging, too, to hosiery makers was the possibility of nylon's becoming a war material. Last week the U. S. Army was testing...