This is the Armys newest tank, the Patton 48, described as the most modern medium tank ever made for our troops. The new combat vehicle has just been unveiled at the Chrysler Delaware Tank Plant where it was built. Design of the tank was completed...
This is the Armys newest tank, the Patton 48, described as the most modern medium tank ever made for our troops. The new combat vehicle has just been unveiled at the Chrysler Delaware Tank Plant where it was built. Design of the tank was completed...
Table of Contents: Battling hidden hunger; Wash-and-wear shirts; New caboose on the scouring train; Rivets for the jet age; Woodland paratroopers; Dacron joins the fire fighters; A matter of switchable parts; Passing the mop test; Driver education...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Textile industry; Paper industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: War on spores; A two-way winner; More peroxide from less power; They tried to swivel it to death; Big catch for Nova Scotia; DuPont's newest water repellent; A dream come true; What's new; Give books this Christmas; 1,000...
Table of Contents: From ladies' slips to battle-ships; Buy-and-run shoppers; Sealing the sand cellars; Rayon passes conveyor belt test; Follow the wind in Wyoming; Textile bleaching cost cut; good news for your car engine; Get acquainted with...
Table of Contents: Nylon turns twenty; This uncommon man; The Glen Canyon feat; Newest of the curtain walls; The ABC's of CMC; Urbane suburban clothes; The voodoo's gone from plastics molding; Seven-minute paint seminar; Evolution in earthmovers;...
Table of Contents: Competition; Five-foot shelf; Drainage systems should be properly maintained; The oil industry uses its own by-product to protect pipe; Closet boxes a new vogue; Getting facts from flights; They're in the army now; With Byrd in...
The white blankets on the twin beds of The Nylon Suite, a new deluxe feature of the Hotel DuPont represent one of the newest fields entered by nylon. Made by the Chatham Manufacturing Company, the blankets are scarcely distinguishable in...
The white blankets on the twin beds of The Nylon Suite, a new deluxe feature of the Hotel DuPont represent one of the newest fields entered by nylon. Made by the Chatham Manufacturing Company, the blankets are scarcely distinguishable in...
Third and newest of DuPont Company plants producing nylon textile fibers. Started production in 1948, the plant's initial capacity has since been tripled. Employment has increased from 400 at the start of operations to almost 3,000.
From DuPont's new $40,000,000 plant for making Dacron polyester fiber, these packages of the fiber start their journey to textile manufacturers. The textile trade will convert, weave and knit this Dacron into apparel fabrics and also fabrics for...
This is the newest type of multiple testing machine which examines all finished pyroxylin coated fabrics for resistance to abrasion at the Newburg, New York plant.
Hand crocheted lace at the right? Not for a moment. It's the same as the loosely woven construction at the left. It was made by the Scranton Lace Company on standard equipment to demonstrate the unusual properties of Fiber E, the DuPont Company's...
Fiber E the DuPont Company's newest form of the oldest of manmade fibers-rayon-lends itself to many unusual effects. Above at the left, the plush is not unusual, but when treated with a dilute solution of caustic soda, the fabric becomes wool like...
The before and after of what take place with Fiber E when treated with a dilute solution of caustic soda. In the rug construction above-which can be produced by knitting or weaving-the long, loose loops at the left show the DuPont Company's newest...
on front of card: "Drake Hotel Courts, Nashville, Tenn. AAA" on back of card: "The Drake. The South's Newest and Finest. Four minutes south of Nashville, on Highway 41-70S. Beauty Rest Mattresses, Tile Baths, Carpeting, Electric Heat,...
Text from back of image: "One of the greatest engineering feats in aeronautical circles in modern times is the U. S. S. Akron, the Navy's newest queen of the air and the world's largest airship. It is now undergoing extensive tests. This picture...
Text from back of image: "One of the greatest engineering feats in aeronautical circles in modern times is the U. S. S. Akron, the Navy's newest queen of the air and the world's largest airship. It is now undergoing extensive tests. This photo...
Written caption: "DuPont's Experimental Station on the Brandywine. The buildings spread out on the north bank of the Brandywine River, near Wilmington, Delaware, comprise DuPont's Experimental Station, one of the largest industrial research...
