Word: nylons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...I.C.I. The company is setting up operations to buy crude oil from British companies, remove valuable petrochemicals and sell the rest as gasoline or fuel oil. It is spreading out from simply supplying plastic to molding plastic products. It now sells 12,000 different items from alkali to nylon zippers and intends to expand its finished-product lines. Such adventuresomeness seems only natural to a company whose birth certificate is a piece of steamship stationery...
...Nolan Nylon. Nolan's subject matter may be rugged, but his paintings almost always turn out to have an unusual delicacy-the happy result of a technique that Nolan developed by using his wife's discarded nylons. "It is a process of putting on layers of color and then burnishing them off with the stocking until I get the translucent quality I want...
...million leather industry, which devotes 85% of its business to producing leather for shoe uppers, a challenge is at hand as great as the one that faced the textile industry a dozen years ago. Says Boston Shoemaker Hector Lynch, president of Howard & Foster Co.: "This may well be the nylon of the leather industry...
...material" (meaning full of microscopic holes) until it can decide on a trademark name. The shoe material is made in two or three layers: outside is a polyvinyl chloride film that can be treated to look like any leather, from cordovan to suede; next is either a layer of nylon or orlon (Du Pont) or one of polyurethane foam (Arnav); the shoe's inside layer is one of the standard lining materials...
Little Protection. Sometimes company research moves so fast that it makes a company's own products obsolete. Du Pont's Dacron is giving tough competition to the company's nylon and rayon, and Du Pont has decided to give up making rayon altogether. General Electric's recently announced silicon transistor will sell for half the price of its own germanium transistor...