Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dynel will be to wool what nylon is to silk." With this glowing sendoff Joseph G. Davidson, president of the Chemicals Division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., last week showed off blankets, socks, draperies, knit goods and imitation fur made of the newest synthetic creation of Union Carbide (manufacturers of Bakelite, Prestone, Vinylite...
Made from natural gas, salt and air, dynel can be dyed, woven with other fabrics or used alone. Davidson says it is washable, mothproof, almost shrinkproof, and resistant to strong chemicals. At $1.25 a lb., manufacturers may find dynel a cheap substitute for wool, which, for similar use, sells at $2.15 to $3.50 a lb. Since dynel orders already far outstrip the company's annual production of 2,000,000 lbs., work was started last week to double the output. If dynel catches on, Union Carbide hopes to expand to as much as 40 million lbs. a year...
...Archibald T. Davidson '06 of the Music Department became the Harvard Glee Club's first coach, and pioneered in developing the current renaissance in the American college trend to produce classical music...
There were also new rumblings from Washington that steel companies are not expanding fast enough. Though Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was satisfied, Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. (for Crow) Girard Davidson, one of the Administration's top planners on steel and electric power, last week said that he was not. Said Davidson: by 1953 the U.S. will need 125 million tons of steel, but its capacity will be only 100 million tons...
Shepard, who is starting his first year as jayvee coach here. Is also varsity basketball coach and has previously coached football at North Carolina, Gullford, Randolph-Macon, and Davidson. Mindful of the team's preparation so far this year, Shepard points out that "the defense should be pretty good...