Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improved over the past ten years. He installed a temporary plastic "shunt" so that blood supply to the brain would be maintained during the operation, removed large gobs of fatty material from the carotids, enlarged both the common and internal carotid arteries still further by suturing a Dacron patch in their walls. Then a week later he removed the atheromas that were causing the sharp pain in Key's legs...
Lestoil Syndrome. Du Pont had the nylon market to itself for 15 years, and did well with Dacron too. But when it went into production of its tough new Delrin plastic-a breakthrough it considers as important as nylon-hardly two years passed before competing Celanese Corp. hit the market with an almost identical plastic developed by its own chemists. U.S. Steel recently developed a new, economical "thin tin" plate-only to find other steel companies out in six months with a thin tin that customers liked better because it gleamed brighter; Big Steel is now copying some...
Little Protection. Sometimes company research moves so fast that it makes a company's own products obsolete. Du Pont's Dacron is giving tough competition to the company's nylon and rayon, and Du Pont has decided to give up making rayon altogether. General Electric's recently announced silicon transistor will sell for half the price of its own germanium transistor...
Manning the Ethan Allen was its "Blue Crew"; the Polaris submarines two-platoon their crews, and the alternate "Gold Crew" was now at New London, Conn. For Polaris crewmen a patrol starts with a change into a special navy-blue Dacron and cotton coverall. The coverall reduces lint in the closed environment, has no cuffs or belts to get tangled in gear. "But," complains one officer, "it's next to impossible to go to the head in this outfit without dunking part...
...dacron and wool gabardine suit is something to dream about in transitional wear. The traditionally styled three-button model ($85) is wrinkle resistant and perfect for travel as well as for hot sticky days. It comes in natural and dark olive...