Word: acrilan
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...boom. One of the nation's biggest chemical centers sprang up in Alabama's tiny farming hamlet of Mclntosh, lured by its abundant salt deposits. In Decatur, Ala., Monsanto Chemical and American Viscose began building $133 million plants for Chemstrand, their jointly owned subsidiary, to manufacture Acrilan. All the synthetics -notably the new fibers like Dacron, Orion, Dynel, etc.-were growing so fast that Australian sheepherders worried that they would lose their wool market, as the Japanese had lost their market for silk...
...National Production Authority last week gave a hearty boost to the synthetic fiber industry. It offered fast tax write-off certificates for enough new plants to raise the combined production of nylon and Acrilan from 100 to 300 million lbs. a year...