Word: seaford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Manchester, 69, jolly, roly-poly, spectacularly spendthrift British peer, 18th in rank of Britain's 26 nonroyal dukes, veteran of many a day in court (three bankruptcy trials), several in jail (for fraud: he was convicted, later acquitted of pawning his mother's jewels); in Seaford, England...
...nylon has made in U.S. silk consumption, Japan last week cut its 1941 silk production quota 20% under 1940, hoped to keep the price well above the current $2.38-a-lb., Government-fixed minimum. This year Du Pont plans to produce 8,000,000 Ib. of nylon at its Seaford, Del. plant, enough to take over 17% to 20% of the U.S. hosiery trade, make a third 'of a million pairs of stockings a day. Late this year, Du Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan...
Welcome as this was to unlicensed manufacturers, they knew that their chances of getting much of the synthetic yarn were slim. For the big Du Pont plant at Seaford, Del. can turn out in the next twelve months only enough yarn for about 5,000,000 dozen pairs of nylon stockings-10% of the annual women's silk hose demand. A second plant, now building, will not swing into full production for a year. Discouraging, too, to hosiery makers was the possibility of nylon's becoming a war material. Last week the U. S. Army was testing...
...operation already, in Seaford, Del., is Du Font's $8,000,000 nylon plant, which can make nylon enough for some 10% of women's full-fashioned hose knitted in the U. S. And soon abuilding will be extensions to increase this capacity. In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose. If nylon sells nationally as well as it sells in Wilmington, Japan stands to lose something like $10,000,000 of her purchasing power in the U. S. Japan's sales...