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SOME of the magic is going out of the "miracle" synthetic fibers, particularly those which are supposed to resemble wool. Sales of Acrilan are so slow that Chemstrand Corp. has cut output at its new $30 million Decatur (Ala.) plant to 17% of capacity, laid off all but a handful of workers. Du Font's Orion is not selling well either for use in worsted fabrics. Weavers, disillusioned about the extravagant billings of man-made fibers, are cutting their orders...
When Australia's wool auctions opened last week, world wool producers got a nice lift. Brisk bidding sent quotations as much as 5% higher than the closing prices last June, and about 25% above their early 1952 lows. But Australia's lively market Was not much consolation for U.S. wool growers, who are in what the Agriculture Department calls "a very depressed condition." Annual wool consumption within the U.S. has fallen from the postwar peak of 738 million lbs. in 1946 to 472 million lbs., and price supports on wool have cost U.S. taxpayers $92.2 million...
...about moisture, and moisture has turned out to be a virulent poison. Now the experts are recommending "encapsulation" (a fancy word for careful packaging). Electronic engineers have also discovered that tiny wires break away from germanium crystals for no apparent reason, even when transistors are resting quietly in cotton wool. Worse still, the carefully processed germanium has been known to "turn over in its sleep" and suddenly act up, like a rebellious child...
...Reichhold has branched out into other fields. A few years ago he went into the manufacture of bonding resins (for plywood, plastics, foundry cores). His chemicals go into refrigerators, glass wool, food boxes, bubble...
...Woolen and worsted mill" is now something of a misnomer for Bachmann Uxbridge. While some woolen and worsted men cursed synthetics, Walter joined the enemy, became one of the nation's first makers of wool and synthetic blends. He pioneered in the blending of wool with rayon, the wool-nylon serge now used by the Army, and the Air Force blue uniform material. After World War II, he started experimenting with such new man-made fibers as Dacron and Orion-now Uxbridge is one of the largest users of synthetics in the woolen and worsted field Says President Walter...