Word: orlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to this demand, manufacturers have increasingly utilized wrinkle-free fabrics such as nylon, orlon, and acetate for everything from shorts to evening clothes...
...TIME, Dec. 13, 1948). Du Pont sees a big future for Orlon in auto tops, tents, etc. Still looking for new products to research, Du Pont recently polled its own employees. Some of the things they would like: a tarnish-proof coating for silverware, a chip-proof nail polish, runproof and snagproof stockings, a way to predetermine the sex of babies...
...throwster, weaver, etc.-and was priced to retail for $49.95. By 1948, said Greene-walt, "60% of Du Pont sales consisted of products that did not exist or were not in large-scale commercial production just two decades ago." Among them: moisture-proof Cellophane, and the new, tougher synthetic "orlon," which may replace nylon. All of them had cost tremendous sums to develop...