Word: rayonism
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...first reading, it looked like the chance of a lifetime. A rayon mill took a one-column display ad in the new York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look...
There were several reasons for the shortage. War had all but knocked out the two top producers, Germany (1939 production: 601 million Ibs.) and Japan (540 million). The total world rayon production in 1946 was only 1.7 billion Ibs., compared to 1939's 2.3 billion. Moreover, important new customers had arisen to compete with dress manufacturers for the supply; this year the U.S. rubber industry, which decided to continue its wartime substitution of rayon tire cord for cotton, will probably take about 26% of the total U.S. production, v. 2% in 1940. Although U.S. productive capacity had more than...
Uplift. A new solution to the old female problem of holding up stockings without girdle or garterbelt was displayed in New York department stores. It was a rayon pantie with four garters attached. The price: $1.25. The name: Suspants...
Ludger Dionne, 59, is a canny industrialist who operates, among other things, a shoe factory, a heel factory and a rayon mill-all in St. Georges (pop. 6,000). Most of his rayon-mill hands-he runs two shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.-are daughters of local farmers. About 50 of them live in Le Foyer, a dormitory built as an annex to the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. On the first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls...
...winning fabric was a simple crossbar pattern woven by San Francisco's Designer Dorothy Liebes. She wove her winner with cotton, mohair and rayon. In other designs, she sometimes blends silk, bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee...