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...announced that it has developed more than 150 new designs for cotton hose, including a cotton-web mesh for evening wear. The supply of nylon (which many women would rather wear than silk) is limited, will amount to only 40% of the market for full-fashioned hose when Du Pont's present plant expansion is completed next year...
...almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon, and that women will buy rayon hose, 3) to urge Du Pont to relax its rule that nylon hose can contain no rayon or cotton. Half North Carolina's mills can knit nylon, but as yet only...
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General Aniline is a desirable property. It is the second largest U.S. manufacturer of photographic equipment (after Eastman), and is tied for third place with American Cyanamid (after Allied Chemical and Du Pont) in the making of dye-stuffs. Its earnings-$4,106,000 last year -are bolstered with defense business; among other things it is the largest U.S. producer of khaki dyes...
Explosive rivets, developed by Du Pont after the basic invention in 1937 by two employes of famed German Plane Builder Ernst Heinkel. A high explosive nests in a cavity at the headless end of an aluminum-alloy rivet. When heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side...