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...CHEVIES may have nylon tires as standard equipment. In secret test, G.M. has put nylon tires on 40,000 new Chevies this year, later will check owners to see how they perform. If they outwear the present rayon tires, Chevy plans switch to nylon, which would be heavy blow to rayon makers, who sell 36% of total output to tire industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...socks woven by Burlington Mills of nylon and Vicara, a new wool-like, mothproof synthetic, made from field corn. Vicara is reported to outwear wool, does not shrink, and sells for around 83? a lb. v. wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Milium & Maleic | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...social and moral order of the Main Line lingers, as a good upper will outwear its sole. Many of the old families have bravely kept up the appearance of a world long after its death. They are the members of a social body that proudly awaits its Proust. He may never come, but the Main Line will at least have had its Biddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in a Dying World | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...cooked at 41° Fahrenheit, compared to 122° for regular synthetic) has been the sensation of the U.S. synthetic industry. Researchers first produced it during World War II. Because cold rubber is made at a lower temperature, it has a longer molecule which fits it to outwear natural rubber by as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...danger of being spoiled by others. ... He will find, if he remains calm and reasonable (and does not take himself too seriously), that in most instances he will emerge with a large part of his work untouched, and he will find that his own constancy will usually outwear these occasional interferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good, Gray B. R. | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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