Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scab-made hose don't seem...
...last 20 years, Du Pont has been easing out of the war business, in 1936 stopped promoting munitions sales abroad altogether. Nowadays it has a less lethal line-and the Du Pont name is best known for stuffs like Duco, Rayon, Zerone, nylon (for fish line, brush bristles, silky hose), plastics, Cellophane. Last year vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., chemicals empire (total assets: $857,618,123), had $299,000,000 in sales. This included only a 1% increase in products for military...
...Nylon hose (made by independent mills from Du Pont synthetic fibre) cost $1.15, $1.25 and $1.35 a pair, according to gauge. One reason Wilmington women like them is because only Wilmington women can buy them. Impressive to the stocking trade, however, is the way nylon has sold out weekly for four months, even though good pure silk branded stockings can be had in Wilmington for only $1 a pair...
Some branded silk hosiery used to cost only 79?. But almost the only ones at that price now have cotton tops and toes. For no stocking-maker can long sell pure silk hose for 79? if the price of raw silk is much above $2 a pound. Year ago January, when the price was as low as $1.83, Japanese silk speculators started a squeeze. Raw silk climbed fast all year (TIME, Nov. 6), last month stood at a ten-year high...
...operation already, in Seaford, Del., is Du Font's $8,000,000 nylon plant, which can make nylon enough for some 10% of women's full-fashioned hose knitted in the U. S. And soon abuilding will be extensions to increase this capacity. In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose. If nylon sells nationally as well as it sells in Wilmington, Japan stands to lose something like $10,000,000 of her purchasing power in the U. S. Japan's sales...