Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflected by the index, the British worker no longer wears a cap, but he sports a necktie. His wife has abandoned lisle hose for nylon and wears a girdle. Their children no more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with...
...explains Britain's Surgeon John Charnley, is either pressure that shuts off blood flow, or moist skin sticking to the bedsheet, which in turn sticks to the waterproof sheet beneath so that no moisture can escape. Dr. Charnley thought of trying a spongy sort of sheet made of nylon and polyvinyl chloride. But U.S. orthopedists had beaten him to the idea, with animal skins. Milwaukee's Dr. Frederick G. Gaenslen, copying an idea used by his orthopedist-father, uses close-cropped sheepskin...
...money in the chemical industry is to develop some far-out fiber, plastic or chemical and then to build a fence of patents around it. Example: nylon. At a cost of $27 million, Du Pont developed nylon in the 1930s; for 15 years until its patent expired, Du Pont got about one-third of its profits from nylon...
...main streets. One morning, a Red reporter had visited all the state trade stores with out finding a single fountain pen. He then watched while Mrs. Toan and Mrs. Hoa sold dozens of fountain pens in less than an hour, in addition to razor blades, moth balls, nylon stockings, shoelaces, buttons and aspirin tablets-all in short supply at the state stores...
...Snia into the front rank of industry by automating to cut costs and by instituting a research program so successful in turning up new fibers that, as he boasts, even the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. has signed up to produce Snia's caprolactam, raw material for nylon. As head of one of the world's largest exporting companies, Marinotti brushes aside talk of Common Market challenges. Says he with a grin: "I've always been in the Common Market...