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...circular, advertising a Dacron-cotton blended shirt that "your son will really be proud of," prominently features a picture of the Harvard parent's son stapled above a personalized message...
...nation's first makers of wool and synthetic blends. He pioneered in the blending of wool with rayon, the wool-nylon serge now used by the Army, and the Air Force blue uniform material. After World War II, he started experimenting with such new man-made fibers as Dacron and Orion-now Uxbridge is one of the largest users of synthetics in the woolen and worsted field Says President Walter: "Wool will never be replaced as a basic fabric. But the textile industry is taking to synthetics in much the same way as the steel industry took to alloys...
...Winter Dacron. First wrinkle-resistant dacron-and-wool suits and topcoats for spring, fall and winter wear will be brought out this fall by Manhattan's Witty Brothers, first manufacturer to make 100% dacron summer suits (TIME, May 12, 1952). Dacron content will range from 35-70% depending on whether it is blended with flannel, gabardine or worsted. Price...
Their mills, which were turning out only 190 million yards of denim eight years ago, this year will produce more than 450 million yards. For the ailing U.S. cotton industry, long ago threatened by rayon and more recently by the newer synthetics like dacron and orlon, the coronation of Cinderella denim proved that where there is a way to make homely cottons attractive there is a will...
...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...