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...London Economist reported that Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie was producing a new artificial fiber, Perlon-Silk, claimed to be the equal of Du Font's nylon...
...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...
...Death, by veteran Script Writer Ruth Earth, done for Du Font's Cavalcade of America. A melodramatization, missing no tricks, of the U.S. Public Health Service's conquest of pellagra...
...tail, Warren Wright's three-year-old darling of the turf: the 49th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes (a mile and five furlongs); by ten lengths over Hal Price Headley's Alaking, 16 lengths over William Boeing's Time Counts, 24 lengths over William du Font's Fairymant; before 27,000 racing fans; at New York's Belmont Park. It was his 20th victory in 35 starts. The $23,050 prize money upped Whirly's life earnings to $347,661-less than $100,000 short of Seabiscuit's all-time record...
...Government-fixed minimum. This year Du Pont plans to produce 8,000,000 Ib. of nylon at its Seaford, Del. plant, enough to take over 17% to 20% of the U.S. hosiery trade, make a third 'of a million pairs of stockings a day. Late this year, Du Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan's No. 1 export. Present price of nylon, though reduced 4% last fall, is still substantially higher than silk. But Du Pont engineers say this is unimportant, since the nylon yarn goes farther...