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...directors including Flourman Charles Stinson Pillsbury watches the company's affairs. Munsingwear's record sales year was 1926 when a $17,962,000 business was done. Recently its sales have been about even with Associated's $15,000,000. To knitted goods it has shrewdly added rayon products as an earnings-stabilizer...
...Rayon. More than 80% of the world's rayon production is controlled by a small, potent group. Members are confined to one specialty, underselling in foreign markets is prohibited. Yet last week the rayon group met in London, failed dismally to stabilize prices...
...used for refrigeration; diethylaniline, used in the dye industry; industrial chloroform, used by dry-cleaners and for medicinal purposes; ethyl chloride, used in antiknock gasoline and to make rubber more flexible; ferric chloride, used in photoengraving; phenol, used in making synthetic resins like Bakelite; acetic anhydride, used in the rayon industry; sodium sulphide, used in tanning; epsom salt; acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin). It also manufactures insecticides, aromatic chemicals, magnesium metal, alloys. ?Chemical Markets Medal awarded by Chemical Markets magazine; Perkin Medal, by Society of Chemical Industry, American Chemical Society, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, American Electrochemical Society, American Institute...
...Raylaine." From Asheville, N. C. last week came reports of a new material, a new company. The material is raylaine, a synthetic fibre made from rayon waste and other materials, more woolish than silkish. The company is Raylaine, Inc., headed by G. Jean Nord, longtime con- sulting engineer to textile mills...
...economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against his rigid economies, as when last March the print-cloth workers voted 4-to-1 against accepting a 10% wage cut so that Amoskeag could...