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...Pont's troubles center in the field it dominates: man-made fibers. As the leading U.S. maker of nylon, Dacron, Orion and several other synthetics, Du Pont depends on textile companies for a third of its sales volume. But the textile industry skidded into a sharp slump this year because of excess inventory, rising imports and falling prices. And that downturn caught chemical companies in the midst of a major expansion of fiber-making plants. One result is that the wholesale price of Dacron has dropped 40% in the past year. The problem, says Copeland, "can well be with...
...Orion blazing. Warblings, odours, nudge to an edge...
...spectrograms of four supergiant stars in the constellation of Orion clearly showed that the stars-each about 25 times the mass of the sun-are ejecting great quantities of their matter at speeds as high as 4,000,000 m.p.h. Should they continue to expel matter at this rate, says Morton, they will eventually lose as much as 95% of their mass and turn into white dwarfs...
Less Rumpled. Slow to get used to the feel of the latest synthetics, Europeans are taking to the wool-like acrylics (such as Orion) and the moisture-proof polyesters (Dacron) with a will. Even wool-conscious Britain has accepted the addition of synthetics to wool, which makes for more durable pleats and a less rumpled look. Five years ago, the German clothing industry used almost no synthetics; now it weaves acrylics and polyesters into everything from socks to sweaters, has transformed the brassiere and girdle business by introducing Du Font's stretchable Lycra fiber. The Swedes practically live...
...Nobel prizewinner, who fathered the age of plastics with his 1922 theory that large organic molecules derive their individual properties from orderly chainlike structures, hundreds of atoms long, thus making it possible for scientists to reproduce the structures synthetically, and develop such wonders as nylon (for silk) and Orion (for wool); of a stroke; in Freiburg, Germany...