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...nights, under mammoth silver palm trees rising toward a starry blue-silk sky, a changing trio of bands will blare out over a vast dance floor holding 5,000, spectators' stands seating 4,000, cafe sections seating 1,500. Admission is 66? on weekdays, 88? on weekends and holidays, with the partners of Service men admitted free...
...contract was signed. Gus Swebilius and his associates took a lot in Hamden, where the fire-ruined walls of a building stood. While a new 15-acre plant was abuilding, they scoured New England for old machine tools, cleaned up and in some cases rebuilt them in an old silk mill, rounded up skilled gunsmiths who had worked with Gus Swebilius during World War I. If they had waited for hard-to-get new tools, they would never have turned out their first guns last week...
...patent ran out and Du Pont ran in. Competition drove the price down, widened the market. By 1927 rayon had passed silk in the U.S. market, grew steadily while other textiles didn't. Figures in millions of pounds consumed...
...Cotton__Wool_____Silk____Rayon...
...when potent Courtaulds, Ltd., British thread & textile makers, acquired an American subsidiary (then Genasco Silk Works) for $130,000, rayon was little more than an idea. The next year the subsidiary sold 308,000 pounds of its honey-colored product for a profit of $230,000. As costs went down (from $1.10 a pound to about 60(0?), the price went up (from $1.85 in 1911 to $10 during the war). In 1919 Viscose made over $25,000,000. Reason: it had a patent monopoly...