Word: rayonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthetic textile ("the best we know of for outdoor use") was hailed by Du Pont. Called "Orlon," it is described as warm as silk, as wrinkle-resistant as wool, and resistant to moths, molds and mildew. Though nylon is less likely to tear, Du Pont said that nylon, rayon, linen and cotton were "complete failures" in an exposure test which hardly affected Orlon...
...year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power. Moscoso's salesmanship has already brought 42 new industries-ranging from rayon to radios-from the mainland. Since 1940, while the population has risen 12%, production has been upped 30%. New inquiries from mainland industries are pouring...
...weekly checks were made on only half the 900 different commodities that the index was supposed to cover. For another, the relative importance of individual items in the index was based on sales during 1929-31. The result was that items which had since increased vastly in importance, e.g., rayon, were given much less weight in the index than they deserved. Newer items were left out entirely. Last week, after months of preliminary tooting, the department issued a new weekly index to replace...
Beards & Matches. In the afternoons, he prowled around the base, dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...
...rayon process, called Sanforset, was developed by Cluett, Peabody; the wool process, still unnamed, was licensed from its British developers, Stevensons Ltd. and Woolsey Ltd., and treats the wool with a "secret" chemical...