Word: rayon
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Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. looks like a holding company (it has controlling or substantial interests in steel, coal, rayon and plastics companies), an investment trust (it owns $109 million worth of securities), and an operating company (it has its own fleet of 13 Great Lakes ore freighters, mines its own coal). It is indeed the great what-is-it?-and lean, square-jawed President George M. Humphrey likes it that way. Says he: "If we don't write down the way it's supposed to be, we can do it any way we want...
...misses' skirts at a good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
...Macy's, neatly fusing politics with haberdashery, offered its customers the Candidate Cravat-a 99? necktie of "rich, fullbodied rayon" bearing a picture of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey...
Evidence that few companies would be able to resist the general trend came from the Government-controlled North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. After arguing for months that the companies' prices .were already too high, the Office of Alien Property was finally won over by minority stockholders, agreed to let management charge 10% more...
...Rayon or Estron? The issue in one case was the word rayon, a word used for years to describe the synthetic fabrics made from a cellulose base, chiefly by the viscose process. In the last 15 years, manufacturers have popularized another fabric which also has a cellulose base (cellulose acetate) but which differs from cellulose viscose - it doesn't iron as well, but resists shrinking better. To keep customers from getting mixed up, the manufacturers thought it should have a distinguishing name. FTC argued that this would only confuse the public, insisted that both fabrics be labeled rayon...