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...high because Dacron fabric still costs a lot more than worsteds.) But Witty predicted it would sell 16,000 such suits in 1952 against the 2,500 available last year. (Witty Bros, plugged the fact that its Dacron slacks are washable.) Other merchants, using blends of Dacron with wool, rayon, nylon, or other less expensive yarns, offered cheaper suits (John David's at $45, Brooks Brothers at $52, Hart Schaffner & Marx at $69.50). Chicago's Lytton's store had boys' and young men's suits made of a blend of dynel, acetate and rayon, sold...
...wipe out the Lancashire textile slump. Then Mikhail V. Nesterov, head of Russia's Chamber of Commerce, oozing cooperation and coexistence, offered to double or triple Russia's imports. He offered to buy British textiles, spices and herring, French electrical equipment and ships, Dutch tin, Belgian rayon, German, Italian and Japanese products. In return Russia would sell grains, coal, manganese and timber...
...schools was a recurring subject in South Carolina, repeatedly coming back as Topic A after interruptions of a week or two. Items which were Topic A in several cities at the same time included Captain Carlsen and the Flying Enterprise, the announcement that Eisenhower was a Republican candidate, inflammable rayon sweaters and the third plane crash in Elizabeth, N.J. Almost everywhere, taxes became the leading subject in late February and early March...
...business. For months, economists had been forecasting a slowdown in the first and second quarters, when civilian output would be deeply cut before arms orders could fill the slack. But the slowdown seemed a little worse than expected. The cotton and wool industries were in the doldrums; the rayon industry was in the first real depression in its history. New steel capacity would soon be coming in at the rate of about 1,000,000 tons a month, and there was talk that the shortage of some types of steel had ended. Even aluminum was becoming more plentiful...
...Angeles when an auto driver's sweater took fire as he lit a cigarette. By last week a score of similar cases had been reported as far east as New England; there were no deaths but numerous burns. The garments, made of highly combustible brushed rayon, were hawked by peddlers at prices as low as $1.50 each...