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...NYLON PRICES are being cut for the first time since 1947 in an attempt to bolster sluggish sales and avert widespread layoffs in synthetics plants. Du Pont and Chemstrand ordered 10% to 22% price cuts in nylon yarn. Dacron will be up to 30% cheaper...
Silk to War. Marion Tilton's first job was to convince the textile men that silk stockings were finished. She did this by appearing in nylon stockings at factories, at geisha parties, town banquets, whereever there was an audience. She talked about the new U.S. synthetics, then dramatically rolled down her nylons, pulled, stretched, even washed them. She persuaded textile men to compete in the U.S. in fabrics...
Teen-agers are still going steady with cotton, despite increasing competition from nylon, rayon and other man-made fibers. So the Department of Agriculture reported last week after a survey of 1,751 girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton...
Funk joined duPont in 1932 and since then has served in various supervisory capacities in rayon and nylon manufacturing facilities. MacVeagh served in advisory positions to the Federal Government in World...
RAYON BOOM goes on despite hot competition from Dacron, nylon, etc. Rayon production last year topped 972,800,000 Ibs., a 10% jump over 1953's previous record and 9% more than all other man-made fibers combined. Rayon's biggest new customers: tiremakers, manufacturers of industrial hose, belting and carpets...