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...process to make new nylon out of old was announced last month by Du Pont. This challenge to the wartime nylon shortage, with drives for old nylon, should mean that many of the 200 million pairs of nylon hose made during the past three years will be converted into parachute cloth, tapes and harness, glider tow ropes, other military goods...
...Pont process old nylon is put into a hot solution. The nylon (a synthetic chemical made from adipic acid and a base related to ammonia called hexamethylene-diamine) dissolves like sugar in hot tea. On cooling, the adipic acid crystallizes out and is purified, while the diamine remains in solution and can be purified by distillation. The two white crystalline chemicals resulting from this unscrambling of nylon fiber are then recombined and polymerized to form the long, tenuous molecules that give nylon its strength and elasticity. This new liquid nylon, identical with the original substance, can be squeezed out into...
...Stockings. Into department-store receptacles U.S. women last week started to drop used silk and nylon stockings, run beyond repair, which the Government wants. Nylon will be reprocessed and used for something the Government is keeping a secret. Silk (which burns without leaving an ash) will be rewoven into powder bags...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...
...Athens (Ala.) College students now can win a year's scholarship by collecting 1,000 pairs of old silk or nylon stockings. The stockings provide reweaving material for local hosiery mills, where more than a third of the students work their way through school...