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...sensational product of the waning '303 was Du Font's "nylon," an artificial silk billed as a formidable rival to natural Japanese silk. Nylon is technically described as "synthetic fibre-forming polymeric amides having a protein-like structure, produced by reacting diamines and dibasic carboxylic acids." Put more plainly, its basic materials are coal, air, water. Last week nylon stockings, as handsome as silk, continued to be sold only in Wilmington (see p. 76). Meanwhile Du Pont announced that the nylon chemicals would be put to many other uses besides stockings: greaseproof paper containers, non-cracking patent leather...
...Pont synthetic fibre) cost $1.15, $1.25 and $1.35 a pair, according to gauge. One reason Wilmington women like them is because only Wilmington women can buy them. Impressive to the stocking trade, however, is the way nylon has sold out weekly for four months, even though good pure silk branded stockings can be had in Wilmington for only $1 a pair...
...Girl students complained that they tore their silk stockings on splintery old chairs...
...world premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee gave Harlem its first taste of a Hollywood first night with gold-engraved invitations, floodlights, a carpeted sidewalk, a microphone, press, police, gaping throngs and Colonel Julian as master of ceremonies in full dress, top hat, white silk gloves and a flowing Inverness cape...
Caught in the old confidence game was superstitious Cinemactress Lupe Velez. She let a gypsy woman persuade her to tie two $1,000 bills and $500 in assorted currency in a piece of red silk to be prayed over as protection against her enemies, got the silk back wrapped around blank paper...