Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Velvet tapered slacks are doing the legwork for the season, with black, red and cobalt blue the leading colors. Also popular are wool, cordoroy, cotton and dacron, and even silk fabrics in slack and toreador pants. Tweeds, stripes, and patterns complete with solids for space on the sportswear racks in the Boston area stores...
...laundry-bill conscious lass, Stephens has put out a dacron and cotton trenchcoat that is guaranteed washable. It is also wrinkle-resistant. White trench-coats are being shown, too--impractical but awfully attractive...
...Government's refusal to approve fast tax write-offs for expansion, the steel industry posted price increases ranging from 1% on hot rolled strip to 5% on plate. In the textile industry, synthetic yarns went up as much as 25? per lb. for nylon, 11? for dacron, bringing immediate wholesale price increases...
...silk, Du Pont applied his findings to the development of nylon, which reached mass production in 1939, after five years and $27 million for applied research. European scientists were quick to capitalize on Carothers' findings, developed other synthetic fibers. When Du Pont used Carothers' research to produce Dacron and other synthetic materials, the U.S. company found that it had to buy manufacturing rights from European concerns. Du Pont's latest dividend from Carothers' research is rubberlike urethane foam, used in a wide variety of end products from furniture to falsies. Urethane production has increased tenfold...
Finisterre's red-topped dacron spinnaker ballooned tautly in a 20-knot northeast wind, and her seven-man crew hand-rode her lovingly to catch every puff of wind as she bowled past Bermuda's St. David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally...