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...hardest hit was the textile industry, whose sales have been "slow to lousv" for four months. Textron, Inc., whose rayon weaving mill in Suncook, N.H. closed down for vacations at the end of June, decided to postpone reopening of the plant indefinitely; its nylon weaving plants closed down for two vacation weeks instead of the normal...
...Harvard degrees by attending extension courses once a week--if they work long enough. One woman studied 28 years before she got hers. This June only one night-school degree, the 220th since the extension program began, will be conferred at Commencement. Its recipient, a foreman at the Industrial Rayon plant, has studied since...
Soon Du Pont's peacetime business soared far above even the war years. Nitrocellulose, used for gun cotton, proved to be the source of peacetime wonders. It led to Duco to rayon and to cellophane-the latter two based on French patents. The French thought they were sticking Du Pont with a useless novelty in cellophane (the stuff came apart when wet). But Du Pont's researchers discovered how to waterproof it (a variant of Duco did the trick), and built such a market that by 1939 cellophane was one of Du Pont's biggest-selling products...
...Pont seeks the new frontiers, there is no limit to the legerdemain which its Wilmington wizards are constantly performing. In three years they have popped out everything from a sulphur-coated grass seed which grows greener grass, to a chemical called Erifron, which makes cotton and rayon flame resistant. They have also produced a revolutionary new insulating material called Teflon. Out of Greenewalt's old specialty, high-pressure synthesis, came some long-chain alcohols which long seemed useless, but have now made Du Pont a prime supplier of raw materials for soapless soaps (detergents). In a pilot plant...
...monopoly, for it knows that any monopoly gets fat and lazy, obsoletes itself in time. Thus Du Pont, though it is one of the biggest U.S. paintmakers, yields first place to Sherwin-Williams. Union Carbide outsells Du Pont in the field of plastics. American Viscose outsells it in rayon. Black gunpowder (once Du Pont's prime product) is now so obsolete that the company, which formerly operated 25 black gunpowder plants, has closed all but one. But in assets Du Pont is as big as the next three chemical companies (Union Carbide & Carbon, Allied Chemical & Dye and Dow Chemical...