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...world's No. 1 rayon maker, vast, British-owned American Viscose Corp., this week admitted what the trade had recently rumored: its new synthetic fiber-Vinyon-is now being produced in small quantities, already being sold in a few forms. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. makes the raw resin powder and Viscose turns it into yarn. This year's probable production...
...sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect may be another story. For silk's best defense against nylon & company is that decent silk stockings can be sold for 79? when the price of raw silk is below $2 (1935-38 average...
...cocoon crop was very small. Trans-Pacific shipping costs had risen since the War started. Total stocks of silk on hand in Japan were estimated to be very low. Besides which the Japanese, to conserve foreign exchange, were buying garments of native silk, instead of imported cotton or rayon made from imported wood pulp...
...Rayon and paper, two industries sold out for months ahead at sellers' prices, last week slackened operations slightly: paper from 96.1% to 92.6%; rayon from...
...case of rayon a shortage of yarn was responsible. The No. 1 U. S. rayon producer, American Viscose Corp., had a yearly fibre capacity of 25,000,000 lbs. at the end of 1938, will have 65,000,000 lbs. by spring 1940. Fortnight ago it announced that it will build a new yarn plant at Front Royal, Va. to up its capacity...