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...Synthetic. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced a trade name, "Amilar," for its newest synthetic, which resists mold and mildew, launders easily and, unlike nylon, will not stretch. Amilar has been tested in such items as window curtains, sewing thread, suitings, may be mixed with wool in many materials...
...productive machine popped out more than 7,000,000 television sets, almost triple 1949; 7,212,000 electric irons, 4,525,000 electric toasters, 4,212,000 washing machines, 1,830,000 ranges, 890,000 home freezers, more than 1,000,000 Hopalong Cassidy suits, and enough nylon stockings to give every woman in the U.S. eleven pairs...
...Street traders, well aware that war always disrupts business, sold stocks in such a frenzy that the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 17.63 points in four days. But in retail and wholesale markets, the cry was "Buy!" With memories of World War II shortages still fresh, housewives stampeded the nylon counters, grabbed for sheets, towels, soap, sugar, and everything else that had been short only a few years ago. In cities like Dallas and San Francisco, department store sales rose more than 40% over...
...Dynel will be to wool what nylon is to silk." With this glowing sendoff Joseph G. Davidson, president of the Chemicals Division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., last week showed off blankets, socks, draperies, knit goods and imitation fur made of the newest synthetic creation of Union Carbide (manufacturers of Bakelite, Prestone, Vinylite...
...Then the war finished and almost overnight everything had gone American in Europe. How did it happen? I really don't know. But there I was, walking the streets and seeing America everywhere: shops full of nylon products, American toothpaste, American combs, Kleenex, candies, everything gaily coloured and smartly wrapped up. The newsstands were full of American papers, a Sunday edition about as big as a hundred European newspapers rolled into one, gay comics put up with clothespegs, stacks of magazines, stacks of books. I looked everywhere for an English magazine and found, tucked away in a corner...