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...rations (TIME, March 10). Last week three more industries went under full priorities. Two-nickel and magnesium-were competitors of aluminum (nickel is an ingredient of stainless steel). The third was neoprene, the high-cost Du Pont synthetic which too many defense manufacturers prefer to rubber (for gaskets, hose...
...consumption. He even preached cotton hosiery. When he reproached American girls for running around with silk stockings "like yellow-legged pullets," the wife* of a retired broker named William Henry Wallace Jr., sitting in the front row, lifted her grey skirt to her knees and displayed naming red cotton hose...
Measures. British defense measures multiplied as necessity mothered invention. Someone discovered that, whereas a strong stream of water from a hose only spreads a fire ignited by incendiary bombs (thermite"), a gentle sprinkle from a stirrup pump with finely perforated nozzle, like a garden watering can, douses the incandescent particles instead of scattering them. All stores were soon sold out of stirrup pumps...
...described one of his experiments producing acetylene rubber. A Du Pont chemist heard him, started his company on the trail. With Nieuwland's collaboration Du Pont workers made a good rubbery material first called DuPrene, now neoprene, which is highly resistant to oil. Its dozens of uses include hose linings, gaskets, conveyor belts, rubber gloves, printing plates, refrigerator seals, hospital sheeting, sink scrapers...
...their chances of getting much of the synthetic yarn were slim. For the big Du Pont plant at Seaford, Del. can turn out in the next twelve months only enough yarn for about 5,000,000 dozen pairs of nylon stockings-10% of the annual women's silk hose demand. A second plant, now building, will not swing into full production for a year. Discouraging, too, to hosiery makers was the possibility of nylon's becoming a war material. Last week the U. S. Army was testing the yarn for use in making parachutes, powder bags...