Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets of tires. Seiberling Rubber Co. has tried to compromise with a combined nylon-rayon tire that, the company insists, has the advantages of both cords and the disadvantages of neither. Ironically, both nylon and rayon may lose out in the end. Experiments by tire-company researchers suggest that Dacron, Fiberglas or steel may eventually prove the most suitable tire cord...
...into the Smashable Age. For years, her only alternatives were paying excess-baggage fees for wrinkleable clothes of regular stay-at-home weight, which had to be pressed again and again, or going lightweight and drip-dry, in the universally recognizable tourist costumes of Orion, nylon or Dacron, which, if well enough styled at times, were never really chic. But in this season's suitcases, wadded and crumpled like hasty lumps of dough, are vacation wardrobes of considerable elegance and style. The seemingly unsalvageable lumps emerge as slight, figure-skimming dresses made of featherweight knits and various jerseys, including...