Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporation, "Conservative Enterprises, Inc.," which he founded one day about five years ago. It was, of course, a satire on business: the company's board of directors was a list of impressive-sounding, Anglo-Saxon, and completely imaginary names. But by selling a Texas oil millionaire a warehouseful of nylon ropes that no one wanted because they had communications wires inside them, de Antonio made enough money out of Conservative Enterprises to take a rather long, rather pleasant vacation...
Rayon was the first of all the syn thetic fibers, but its sales slipped badly as nylon and other new synthetics came on the scene; when Du Pont closed down the last of its rayon-producing plants last year, it seemed that rayon's day was finally over. But, with surprising fortitude, rayon has refused to be pushed into oblivion; it has survived as the largest selling artificial fiber in the U.S., and now accounts for more than a third of the volume of the $1.9 billion synthetic business. After slumping for five years, rayon sales have jumped...
...threat to rayon is the slow gain of nylon in auto tires, which account for a fourth of rayon's market. The automakers all use rayon in their tires because nylon tires thump after standing for a period, leading drivers to believe that something is wrong with the car when they start rolling. But the nylon industry is trying to work out the thump, and the eight U.S. rayon makers (biggest: American Viscose) do not expect to hold off nylon cord forever...
...which would have out the lead to nine, but the All-American was called her charging and the two points nullified Van Breda Kelff had conniptions on the sideline, and the look in Bradley's eyes meet have resembled the expression of the Boston Strangler when he has a nylon stocking in his hand...
Looking like a strange translucent bubble, the nylon dome is kept aloft by a pair of 1½-h.p. fans, is big enough (120 ft. long, 33 ft. high) for all but the most enthusiastic lob shots. Adapted from a design for use in housing radar-antenna installations, the tent was built by Birdair Structures Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., can be rigged and inflated in several hours, packs away when not in use into a space just about the size of a pingpong table...