Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...touched off the market break when he stopped stockpiling wool for uniforms. The Australians, are also faced with a new threat to high wool prices. Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson said that the Government might promote a big synthetic-wool industry by granting tax advantages for expansion to Du Pont (Dacron), Union Carbide & Carbon (Dynel) and other makers of wool substitutes. Such a program could eventually make the Merino sheep as obsolete as the Japanese silkworm...
...retailers, who had watched nylon work a revolution in the hosiery market, were in the midst of another Du Pont revolution last week. On sale were men's shirts and women's blouses of Dacron, a synthetic which may do the same thing to wool that nylon did to silk. In the next few weeks, men's suits of Dacron will be sold all over the country...
Manhattan's Witty Bros. announced it will make 100% Dacron summer-weight suits to sell for $95 in about 60 stores all over the U.S., including San Francisco's Roos Bros., Boston's Kennedy's, Kansas City's Palace Clothing Co. Suits made from Dacron are lighter and cooler than summer-weight wool, will not wrinkle, stretch or fade; the crease in the trousers can only be removed with a hot iron. Last summer, Witty made experimental suits for 200 test customers. One man accidentally tumbled out of a canoe while wearing his Dacron suit...
...Pont's Delaware plant makes Dacron on a pilot plant scale, can supply Witty with fiber for only 1,600 suits this year. Big-scale deliveries of Dacron must wait until 1953, when Du Pont finishes its new plant at Kinston...
...Pont is now completing a new plant at Kingston, N.C. to put Dacron into mass production in 1953. The fiber may well do to wool what nylon did to silk...