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Never-Wear Nylon. Du Pont has developed a tougher nylon for heavy-duty work and sports clothes. To be marketed in clothing this fall, the new nylon (Du Pont 420) can be blended with cotton or rayon to make clothes that Du Pont claims will last 70% to 100% longer than standard garments...
...A.D.L. acted as ICA's agent in drawing up an exhaustive blueprint for industrialization. Iraq is now reclaiming sulphur from abundant natural gas, making paper from reeds, building a date-sugar plant to use its huge date surplus. A gas pipeline is being laid; new plants to make rayon, fertilizer and steel are rising; the nation's industrial bank is being reorganized...
Brass Tacks. Even in Egypt, where development has been hard hit by Nasser's foreign policy, some A.D.L. plans have borne fruit. A plan to use caustic soda in projected paper and rayon plants uncovered a highly important use for a byproduct chlorine. The chlorine, which seemed useless, can go into making sodium pentachlorophenate-a chemical that kills the river-borne parasites causing bilharziasis, a disease chronic in Egypt for centuries...
...Rayon & Beans. Exporter Gentili, who also dabbles in politics (he ran unsuccessfully for the Italian Senate in 1948 and 1953), was approached in 1952 by Communist Leader Spartaco Muratori, then bossing a chain of party-owned firms that handle more than half of Italy's $123 million yearly East-West trade. Muratori made a deal with Gentili to take over the party's China trade. Two months later Peking gave Gentili an order for 7,000 cases of rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made...
Metals & Machines. Last spring Gentili shepherded to China a party of top industrialists, including some from the huge Montecatini chemical group and the Farmitalia agricultural implements combine. They closed $15 million in contracts for the sale of fertilizer, rayon and other nonstrategic items. Regally received by Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, Gentili himself won agreements for the export of strategic metals, machinery and tractors -if and when Italy lifts her embargo on strategic exports to China. Gentili is now busily lining up export-hungry Italian businessmen to try to do just that...