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Souvenir cups & saucers lay crushed in the wreckage; nylon stockings and burst food parcels were jumbled with the torn sections of human bodies. The plane did not burn. There was one other survivor, Melville Thomas, a colliery fitter from Llanharan. Eighty were killed. It was the worst crash in aviation history...
...Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...Benny, with a red rosebud in the lapel of his jauntily cut suit, walks from his home on the fashionable Doble Via to the hospital. He spends at least two hours visiting the children and checking on such details as charcoal for the kitchen stove and nylon sutures for the operating room. Though the government pays the hospital's 22 doctors and 14 nurses, Benny buys what he calls the "extras"-a child-size operating table, modern X-ray equipment, new washing machines for the laundry. All told, he has spent some $500,000-and made...
...crew later, "was the easiest part." Eleven of the men landed in a twelve-square-mile area on the northwest shoulder of the desolate, storm-swept island. Most of them landed in trees, disentangled themselves from chute shrouds and branches and spent the first night wrapped in wet nylon or under inflated rubber dinghies taken from their parachute seat packs. Captain Barry, last to leave his stricken ship, came down in a shallow pond and spent the rest of the miserable night on the shore. Corporal Richard J. Schuler passed a wakeful, uneasy night alone listening to a bear prowl...
...maneuver was centered around the Alaska Highway, the one road in the Northwest by which an aggressor force or a defending Allied army could travel. At night, troops had to leave the road to bivouac in the bush in their nylon tents and down-filled sleeping bags. But most of the transport was roadbound, an easy target for air attack...