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...steps to make the charges obsolete. Against the charge that I.C.I, does not compete with Du Pont in the U.S., the British company bought up Providence's Arnold Hoffman & Co., Inc., last year sold $8,200,000 worth of goods in the U.S. Du Pont, accused of monopolizing nylon, voluntarily turned over its nylon processes to Chemstrand, a jointly owned subsidiary of its rivals, Monsanto and American Viscose...
...because Dacron fabric still costs a lot more than worsteds.) But Witty predicted it would sell 16,000 such suits in 1952 against the 2,500 available last year. (Witty Bros, plugged the fact that its Dacron slacks are washable.) Other merchants, using blends of Dacron with wool, rayon, nylon, or other less expensive yarns, offered cheaper suits (John David's at $45, Brooks Brothers at $52, Hart Schaffner & Marx at $69.50). Chicago's Lytton's store had boys' and young men's suits made of a blend of dynel, acetate and rayon, sold...
...response to this demand, manufacturers have increasingly utilized wrinkle-free fabrics such as nylon, orlon, and acetate for everything from shorts to evening clothes...
...that pilots could continue to function in the maneuvers of high-speed combat, the Navy and Air Force developed G-suits-nylon coveralls with air bladders mounted at the abdomen, thighs and shins. All five bladders are interconnected, and, in the cockpit, they are attached to an air pump. The flow of air to the G-suit is regulated by a weighted valve spring. The same G forces that tug at the pilot move the valve spring. As air is admitted to the G-suit, its bladders become tourniquets, preventing the blood from pooling in, the blood vessels of legs...
...medicines are being put into capsules, safer and easier to handle than long "hot" drinks. To irradiate cancers in the stomach and bladder, balloons are inserted which can be filled with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...