Word: nylons
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...last week flying columns of female New Yorkers stormed the hosiery counters of New York City department and specialty stores for the first big public sale of glassy, synthetic, much-publicized nylon stockings. In the words of one harassed clerk, it was "a madhouse." Elsewhere, in most of the hundreds of U. S. cities which shared the national debutx buyers were more philosophical, took their time about snapping up the latest addition to women's full-fashioned knitted hose...
Nationally advertised brands of nylon hose stuck to their opening prices of $1.15, $1.25 & $1.35 a pair. But nylon's Manhattan appearance touched off a price war on unbranded lines. It was started by Manhattan's big Macy's department store, which quoted the hose at $1.08 and $1.27. Bloomingdale's cut to $1.04 & $1.23. By mid-afternoon Macy's was down to 98∧ & $1.17, but Bloomingdale's stayed one cent under its competitor. For buyers, packed five deep at some hosiery counters, it was wonderful. Limited to two pairs apiece, they almost...
...robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
...generic word for a generic product, "nylon" looks like a permanent addition to the language. Most manufacturers prefer to trade-mark their courage. Paradox is that Du Pont (and Webster's) still capitalize Cellophane, a far more generic word to the man-in-the-street...
...Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...