Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same economic factors that can make planes somewhat less "airworthy" than they might otherwise be, also stand to make them somewhat less "crashworthy." To dress up the cabin, the manufacturers have put in nylon and Dacron seat covers, soundproofing and rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than...
...Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese army, and the Japanese are providing nylon sandbags, barbed wire and prefabricated buildings. Taiwan is negotiating with the U.S. to supply mortar shells and machine-gun bullets, and enterprising Filipinos are making money selling the U.S. Army venomless snakes to be used in training G.I.s about how to avoid panic when they encounter the really poisonous serpents...
That looks fine on nymphets, but for the woman in need of support it can be downright embarrassing. Girdle manufacturers, however, are rising to the crisis with all kinds of artful camouflage. Some are disguising the unseemly with ruffles; others propose nylon bloomers and all-in-one outfits with built-in bra and legs like Jamaica shorts. If all this seems too much, the well-dressed woman can simply take her stand against the rising hemline and resist. But she may soon find herself in a dwindling minority. Dress Designer Mainbocher speaks comfortingly of "client length," but he admits that...
Through feathers of steam and shrill cries of "Sa trăiască!" (Long life!) stepped a short, square-shouldered man wearing a blue nylon raincoat and a quizzical expression. Within minutes, Nicolae Ceausescu, 48, leader of Rumania's Communist Party and the youngest Red ruler in Eastern Europe, had changed into his "touring outfit" and was ready to roll...
...termed the abolition of the excise tax questionable, and said that we must be prepared to say "that nylon stockings third cars and second fur coats were not quite as important as better schools and better housing...