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...Pont de Nemours & Co. fortnight ago announced it would erect a new textile plant and begin commercial production of Fibre 66, regarded by chemists as the first satisfactory substitute for silk in hosiery. Last week Celanese Corp. of America, third largest U. S. rayon manufacturer,* approved construction of a $10,000,000 factory near Pearisburg, Va. where it too will produce a new synthetic silk fibre. This unnamed yarn, said company officials, can be used for various textile products, does not correspond with Fibre 66. But the trade saw in the announcement a second sign that the Japanese silkworm soon...
...first toothbrush with synthetic bristles replacing the standard hog bristles imported from northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter of the bristles can be regulated in production, definite standards...
...month ago when the U.S. granted E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. a patent on a new product known as Fibre 66, which apparently has the elasticity rayon has always lacked (TIME, Oct. 3), chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...
...more, and four made more than $50,000. The top four were Photography Expert Charles E. K. Mees of Eastman Kodak Co. ($54,000); Physicist-Engineer Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories ($55,000); Chemist Charles M. A. Stine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. ($65,000); Chemist George Henry Clowes of Eli Lilly & Co. (drugs...
...apparel trade, which had for some time heard rumors of the new Du Pont product under the name of Fibre 66, believed it might prove the first practical process for manufacturing synthetic silk entirely from chemicals...