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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...
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...
...money testing hull models in the tank at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. The product of those tests is a 6g-ft. 5-in. hull of Honduras mahogany that took nine months to build. Gretel's sails were cut from 13,970 yds. of light blue Dacron imported from the U.S.; her go-it, extruded aluminum mast was constructed to such rigid specifications that four one-thousandths of an inch was shaved off one section to make sure that its center of gravity was correct. "This is a national project," said Sir Frank, and Aussies everywhere were caught...
...hose, and Kentshire sheets by Pacific at $2.57 apiece, v. $3.49 for regular Pacific sheets. Though his competitors sneer that some of Ferkauf's "comparables" look more like sacks than Saks, he does offer many a genuine bargain. Samples: Italian hand-knit men's sweaters for $8.99, Dacron and wool men's summer suits for $25.48, French alligator handbags...