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Nylon bearings. Advantages, claimed in a Du Pont patent: no lubrication required; less friction, vibration, heat; longer wear and ability to carry heavier loads than bearings made of bronze, brass, babbitt metal. In the past, bearings have been made of synthetic resins, but they had to be reinforced with fabric fillers, required water lubrication...
There the Hampton Co., cotton finishers, had set up a 1,500,000-lb.-per-year rayon plant as an experiment, discovered that American Viscose, Du Pont and Industrial Rayon were hard on newcomers, shut their plant in 1939. The machinery has been for sale ever since. Naselli bought it with money raised in Mexico, last week had men dismantling it for removal to San Angel, suburb of Mexico City. By mid-1943, says he, its production will be expanded to 6,000,000 lb., enough to make Mexico virtually self-sufficient in rayon...
...minded Chicago couple who sent leftover wedding invitations to assorted bigwigs they didn't know, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée du Pont sent formal regrets, a solid silver coffee urn, creamer, and sugar bowl...
...Pont in Brazil...
...patent ran out and Du Pont ran in. Competition drove the price down, widened the market. By 1927 rayon had passed silk in the U.S. market, grew steadily while other textiles didn't. Figures in millions of pounds consumed...