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Footwear or Firepower? In mid-April, U.S. officials were surprised to note that Saigon businessmen had ordered 150 tons of Du Pont-made Unicel-100, a powdered compound used in the manufacture of rubber sandals. Oddly, that one shipment was sufficient to make 7.5 million pairs, though last year's production in Viet Nam had been no more than 500,000. Du Pont had warned Government men before that the stuff was also a deadly explosive, and AID officials ordered a Naval Ordnance Laboratory test last month to determine its effectiveness. They were surprised to find that the compound...
...gaily decorated siding under Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, railroad men saw something new in freight cars this week. It was the "Unicel," a gleaming white freight car made almost entirely of plywood. "This," said John I. Snyder, 40, chairman-president of the Pressed Steel Car Co., "is the first really new freight car built in the U.S. in half a century...
Railroaders gave the new car a polite wait & see reception, meanwhile went on ordering old-style cars (New York Central this week ordered $38 million worth of the standard type). But Snyder, who had put three years of research and $250,000 into Unicel, hoped to change their old habits, was betting that the new car would eventually revolutionize freight car building. In a rearming U.S., which would need all the steel and all the freight cars it could make, Snyder had one big fact on his side: plywood is not nearly as scarce as steel...
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