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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never-Wear Nylon. Du Pont has developed a tougher nylon for heavy-duty work and sports clothes. To be marketed in clothing this fall, the new nylon (Du Pont 420) can be blended with cotton or rayon to make clothes that Du Pont claims will last 70% to 100% longer than standard garments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...Pont case the majority of the court tortured the Clayton " ct to arrive at its decision. The opinion of the minority was not only good law but. was ?rood. sound, common sense. In the Jencks case the decision went far beyond the issues noon which the court was called to decide. It seems to me to have been a gratuitous slap in the face to Government law-enforcement agencies, particularly the honored and respected FBI. It will aid and encourage subversives in their nefarious designs against the integrity of our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...seem to enjoy the brave new look our Chief Justice is giving the Supreme Court. But down here we think that if he was big enough in the segregation case to amend the Constitution singlehanded he should be big enough to kick Du Pont in the pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...fought harder against .TB than Florida's William T. Edwards, lay chairman of the state tuberculosis board. A businessman and onetime professional lobbyist for the late Albert I. Du Pont, Edwards spent much of the past 30 years lobbying for anti-TB measures. He wheedled some $30 million out of the legislature for four TB hospitals, plus millions more for other attacks on the disease. But last week Crusader Edwards, now 73, was accused by Florida's leading TB specialists of deliberately wrecking the program he had so laboriously set up. Their argument: Edwards cannot grasp just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crusader Without a Cause | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...Made Mink. Manhattan's Collins & Aikman Corp. will soon put on sale a synthetic mink, which it claims looks like the real thing from a few feet away. Composed of Du Pont's Orion, Union Carbide's Dynel and other synthetics, the phony mink gets its effect by combining both long and short hairs to imitate real mink, will come in several shades. Joining the company's synthetic beaver ("Cloud No. 9") and sealskin ("Kissing Cousin"), a coat will cost less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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