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...miracle" synthetic fibers, particularly those which are supposed to resemble wool. Sales of Acrilan are so slow that Chemstrand Corp. has cut output at its new $30 million Decatur (Ala.) plant to 17% of capacity, laid off all but a handful of workers. Du Font's Orion is not selling well either for use in worsted fabrics. Weavers, disillusioned about the extravagant billings of man-made fibers, are cutting their orders...
...first makers of wool and synthetic blends. He pioneered in the blending of wool with rayon, the wool-nylon serge now used by the Army, and the Air Force blue uniform material. After World War II, he started experimenting with such new man-made fibers as Dacron and Orion-now Uxbridge is one of the largest users of synthetics in the woolen and worsted field Says President Walter: "Wool will never be replaced as a basic fabric. But the textile industry is taking to synthetics in much the same way as the steel industry took to alloys...
...Modern Art plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow...
...Cadillac has a new sports convertible, the six-passenger El Dorado which, at $7,500, is the U.S.'s highest-priced mass-production car. It has a "wraparound" windshield that sweeps to the sides, wire wheels, and an Orion top that folds back under a steel cover. Cadillac's regular 1953 line has a wider, more massive hood and headlight visors that lengthen the fender line; prices are the same as in 1952 ($3,571 to $5,620). Optional: air conditioning, wire wheels or wire-wheel hubcaps, power steering, and an "autronic eye" control that dims headlights automatically...
...centers sprang up in Alabama's tiny farming hamlet of Mclntosh, lured by its abundant salt deposits. In Decatur, Ala., Monsanto Chemical and American Viscose began building $133 million plants for Chemstrand, their jointly owned subsidiary, to manufacture Acrilan. All the synthetics -notably the new fibers like Dacron, Orion, Dynel, etc.-were growing so fast that Australian sheepherders worried that they would lose their wool market, as the Japanese had lost their market for silk...