NEW! NEW!
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1958,
Have you noticed the amazing crop of
crop of Never- Befores? By CHAPMAN PINCHER
IN more than 1,000,000 years of human history Nature has provided only four fibres suitable for weaving into clothing-wool from the sheep, silk from the silk-worm, linen from flax, and cotton from the cotton plant.
Of
After little more than 60 years of effort the chemists have beaten Nature. They have produced 10 man-made fibres suited to the manufacture of clothing.
the most important in thew rayon, nylon, Terylene, Acrilau, and Courtelle are Britain at the moment,
"WITH A COMMENTARY BY CUMMINGS
A QUIET AMERICAN'S LOT IS NOT A HAPPY ONE
Cummings
BOHB SHOWER
**When Molotov said 'No l'
When Stall blockaded Ber-
wo knew what to say,
In, we knew what to do....
When Korea started we knew bow in react....
With the Cold War, 1 knew what posture to adopt.....
But it's Krushchev's " Yes1"
that's really got me scared!”
worn by the rich
By mixing the 14 Abres in knock wool out, but to provide the social, distinction between various ways the spinners and materials walch can be mixed the clothed
produce with wool and so eke out the and nut-no-rich.
fabries world's wool supplies.
weavers
TW CAR hundreds of different and materinis,
Go rapid the tempo of research in the laboratories that many more man-made Abren will soun be produced by the chemist who has become the couturier's best friend,
Nylon has
hit the
Tuus
Mixing
US Terylene and Aelian ae being used in increasing amounts for mixing with woul silk to produce materials with pro- better than either perties
Industry hard, especially
for the production of women's stockings, About 92 per cent manufactured! of all stockings in Britain are made from nylon -threequarters of thein from the sheer 15-denier thread.
the
material ured alone.
Cotton was badly knocked by commercially Tayon-the fest successful man-made fibre when British-yes British chemists invented it in 1892. But cotton has hit back txt production is as big as ever.
Is this in- (Inekdentally. zistence on sheerness which is responsible for the complaint
Indeed the man-nude Abres that nylons are not as strong.
STIMULATED the as they use to be when women have
twice-an established textile industries by were wearing
faccing them to improve their teg 30-denfet stockings, am salighed from my Inquiries goods.
has laren That deliberate lowering of many- facturing standards to make nylons ladder more quickly.)
there
Sales up
1
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TYLON is also beginning to woollen sock in- hit th dustry cause of its hard wearing qualities, which cut the housewife's-and the bachelor's
durning.
Two years ago only four out of every 100 pairs of socks sold in Britain were made of nylon. Now the figure is more than 30 out of every 100,
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shirts The drip-dry cotton which are now so sheetssful are the result of the energenen of the nylon and Terylene shirts which dried rapidly and did zal need broning.
are Now the nylon people
bock
drip-dry kating
ht cotton with new shirts-soon to come on the market-which will look like cotton but wear much larger.
In the Beld of household fabrics and furnishings the story challenge and counter- of
Thus challenge is the same.
nylon or carpels of there are
territi Courtelle, which have wear resistoncé and are moth-
curtains which proof: Terylene need no faning and are flume- proof. Be sure that the estab- carpet and furnishing; trades will hit back by improv- ing their products.
Nevertheless, execpt for sill. the man-made fibres have not seriously affected the industries hed based on the original natural fibres,
more
For the first time colourful and tasteful clothing became available to all at modest prices, Aki the rayon industry has expanded and the new bres, nylon, energed JE has like become more and more dimeuit to distinguish the shopgirl trom the titled woman as they walk down the street.
The brilliant way the textile experts have modified nylon-a transparent, whiny material when produced
ia the factory-s astonishing. There are
yon chiffons, voiles, rating,
poplins, Netzs
and EVED velvets.
Someone
I Hoped I'd
Never Meet
They have even-cashed in on its natural transparency-which should be a sales drawback-by marketing "see-through" undies be forecast from knowledge of end nighidreuses.
The experts have been equally versalle
in their handling of rayon and Terylene. Acrilan, how being imported but soon to be made in Northern Ireland. Courtelle-lready in pro- and duction are just beginning to exert their impact on the British textile trade,
yezte
its chemical structure.
is
with even
As knowledge of complex chemicals advances--and it advancing rapidly-It should be possible to predict the proper- Hes of new brea greater excelitudes. materials with even longer wear, more glamour, and unshrink-
bility.
Again
GivingTHE
All these bres are capable of In forging these now Abres almost unlimited development, the chemists wit! be establishing Hayon, which has been going tor industries vital to Britain's เม
incidentally, economie survival, for there are and, accounts for 80 per cent of the enormous export possiblities in world production of man-made these new materials. libres is still being improved and developed.
Both natural and synthetic bres have a big future, but the chemists must surely win in the long run because they "inilor make", fibres for, par- tieular Jobs.
can
After all, the main function of wool is to keep
the sheep warm, while it is a pure fluke The man-made Abres have that cotton and flax cre of any They do not REPLACE want,
life made only fax, and critters, but AUGMENT not
value for textiles at all. them-providing entirely new colourful and morg exciting.
icatures
was the firet fabrics with different
Though nylon For women, bu perticularly
considerable fully synthetic commercial Abre, have exerted und user.
It must certainly be admitted effect on the structure of spelety. the British invention Terylene, made by John Whinßeld in 1841, that for many purposes the chemists have not yet beaten It was the emergence of rayon will probably go down in history -the so-called "tilled silk," the Arst fibre really "allor The sheep.
the made" to give a the -lu the early part of
material with Their
impact on main
which could wool industry has not been fo century which first broke down special properties
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A diver's dream come true!
Strength
THE existing man-made Abres.
have uses far beyond cloth- ing and household fabrles. Thus more than 05 per cent of British and bus lyres now car, lorry,
contain rayon in the cords used to give the tyre its strength and
ability,
Ashing Nylon makes which are less easily seen than twine and so catch more fish. Terylene is used for tablecloths,
yon for re-hoses,
Rene MacColl reporting_to_Britain
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bigger, better
more im- "When it's that or nothing, Detroit's mayor, Louis pressive "automotive trans- why, you grab 1," said Miriami, a friendly, easy-paced port," for something that re- Doris Milzen, a striking blonde, man, who flies to Washington presented chrome-rich evidence She used to work in an adver to urge salvage action by came Congress, tells me that he does that the Joneses were undoubt- tising agency, but then
the "ay-offs" edly being kept up with.
and now she not see any prospect of im« Now the spree is over. The "hustles hamburgers" in an eat- pravement “before the Autuṛṇn Desembly lines have groaningly ing place.
at the earliest," slowed some have stopped altogether.
There are soup kitchens and for the dole, shuning queues unhappy men with desperate eyen begging in the streets. It is "Brother, can dime?" again-in Detrolt of places.
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Out and Bust
п
all
There are 230,000 unemploy DETROIT. ed in Detroit, which means well about one in seven of the whole fairly
labour force. And when you dressed, fairly well have nearly a quarter of shaved man stopped be- mon people out of work in
a city of 3,750,000 the impact fore me in one of De- everywhere and dismally felt. troit's main streets.
For a moment I thought he wanted to know the time.
Then, incredibly, I heard his volee-embarrassed, unhappy-- muliering a request for ե "handout."
As I wandered about the place I saw tatty cinemas ad vertising. "We keep open all the night." incaning that for price of your ticket you would at least havo somewhere sleep.
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Mr John Siczak, 48 and grey- ink, was with a famous car Arm for 25 years. Although he had reached a good position he was among those sacked slump deopened.
Te lays the blame squarely on the big motor-car corpora- tions for "pricing themselves clear out of the market. The ittle guy just could not afford those steep prices anymore, gone. His so he stopped buying. Then one wife has had to begin taking in thing led to another and before
His savings art
washing,
118 the
"What I should have done," says Mr Slezak, "is move some- where else and start again. But at my age it's hard"
Unlike Slezak a good many people have already left city to which they flocked expectantly during
years.
the
you knew it we were in this situation."
The mayor is going to press the Congressmen to abolish the federal tax on now cars, but es the with all such tax-casement So schemes there is the gnawing good foar that the money thus saved will merely be banked and not
There has been a sharp jump spent.
Army in
enlistments. The
The whole thing has a faintly who Negroes,
hove swarmed
nightmare quality of in- north since the war, Are Now
people returning to their homes down evinbility. For years
have been taking so many pre- south.
cautions to ward off another alump.
Sorry export
As the production lines have and unemployment Detroit has been ex-
#0
So many wise and proscient people have explained tellingly why another one was happen Impossible. It connot
gat, they said. The Govern- Tot it, they ment will hot chorused. Not again,, not this time, not any more.
Only, it is happening again.
The facts
So,
while
Washingto
I wandered down sorry streets It was Detroit and her bulg- where the little shops had gone Ing motor-car trade which were busi by the score, where res- the first to feel the stump and the taurants had
been which have been by far recently He was
one of the growing boarded up or had "For Sale" worst hit by it. army of panhandlers" (beggars) signs hanging out, and where, who have been seeping about in stagnating barber shops, the slowed Detroit of late. They are the barbers sat moodily in their own jumped, victims and the products of the chairs rending comic books. porting trouble instead of cars stump--not the "depression," There are all sort of little to the rest of the nation.
"Hit the auto trade and you which speak of nets not the "recession," but slump tell-tale signs
which has got Detroit fast in bad ilmes. One of the most hit America," they gloomily tell
significant is the reappearance you here, and so it has proved, they pontificate and deliberato its grip.
in menial jobs of
Far-off steel plants close. Be- and talk about "etting things the pretty This is Detroit which not so girls.
of Detroit's
and travails, work themselves lung ago, was the triumphant
factorles During the past 10 years of rubber
a thousand "waiting for the inevitable up- The Navy's flags are to be
young miles distant sack their em- turn," here in Detroit-grey; made of nylon because it is im- Rymbol of a glitterlag prosper roaring prosperity the
lyre demand bleak Detroit-the soup kitchens pervious to sea water and willous America... Detroit, which and handsome American work ployees because
either vanished has fallen.
are out, the faces are worried stand up to teering gales. The was pouring out motor-cars as ing girl had
hard as if could to cope with a
make into lght Industry or into well-
cud strained, and · mnen list goes on indefinitely.
seemed insoll- paid secretarial work,
bitter jokes about Elsenhower's Already the world output of demand which man-made fibres doubles that of able at prices which constantly
Such jobs as working lifts or
prediction that March would wool.
see things getting boiler again. The industry employs soared.
working as waltresses or sales tho Detroll end
largest clerks in, the big stores
Because here in Detroit, with more than women in Britain alone. Bust city Ithe United States spurned and left to the old Now
March gone, there is no
"Miri"* thebusily catering for the hunger the pretty young waitress
of better times. Just the teets ness is expanding, and future looks extremely bright,
for again a feature of the scene.
of life in a slump.
40,000
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of 170 million Americans
were
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Across the land, new deolers are stuck with the whopping 380,000 unsold cars. Sales of now cars are down 40 per ccot on last year, and the giant ear factories produc- tion is "off" 32 per cent on 2057.
out"
1 has proved an indispenseste se
cessory for all diving..." D. Kebikoff, Vika-Prethlent of the institute of Sub-
meri Resorch, Cannes.
"The Relax Sabeuriset tim nơm becaused on 14 descents, one of theTU being talepth of 144 fist for 20 minutes, 1s has stiɑ been used la heavy belnet connues to work perfectly.
"I am sure than satisfed with its Performam," Capixin T. A. Itampion, APE, P.11.1, Master C., British Endris Water Centre, Dartmouth.
"The claim they the walch is specially designødva zvercome fie peculiar prob- lems of keutate timing while +55K parkularly be respect of its caternal features, was oxacily borne out by the reva. Np tinh To Lay texts was made by the manufacturers, these being sei by
The Club to equate to the most extreme diving conditions likely to be encenatio fred... From the report of the test curleduurby the BoluntsSubmAquaĊtuð.
AMERICA'S SLUMP THROWS ITS SHADOW OVER TREASURY HOPES FOR A BUSY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR
Britain's balancing act
We paid ourselves
in wages and profits
Foreign Trade Account
In the RED In the BLACK
£69 m
Nation's Output
Prices
We |produced
In 1957 it rose +14%
1955
1
1+13%
6%
MORE than 1956+15%
1956
LESS than post-war average rise of +
1957
3%
se prices rose.
A watch that is waterproof down to 660 feet
AT ANY DIVER knows, you tend to lose all sense of time underwater. Yet accurate and reliable timing is essential for proper decompression when returning to the surface. Lacking this, many divers have endangered their lives and a number of them have been crippled by "the bends."
Rolex, who specialize in providing accurate time under any circumstances, have made o wonderful watch called the Submariner-especially for deep divers and all those engaged in sea-going activities. The Rolex Subenariner has special Oyster case unconditionally guaranteed le resist the fantastic pressure of 660 feet underwater.
Devolutionary Wine-recorder
The Submariner Bas also a re- valutionary "Time-Recurder" rim round the dial, calibrated from zero to 60. By turning this rim to that the zero mark points to the minute hand, before he starts, the diver can always read off the time clapsed. Even in the twilight pre valling at 150 feet, or when diving at night, he can read it because the dial and all three hands are exten-luminous.
Emential for decompression
The "Time-Rocorder" rim solves the problem of exact timing of
docompression stages. By pre- scuting the zero mark to the cor- rect number of minutes, the diver knows precisely when to continue upwards to the surface.
shadow of
the
Tamerican slump hovers.
over the Treasury.
This restrains much of the optimism in its "Econo- mic Survey, 1968."
"
But, unlike Mr Macmillan
By TREVOR EVANS
a particularly in the second serious than in previous years, half of 1957, and at the end of home supplies of eval and steel the year it was 8 per cent lower are generally mumetent, and than at the beginning,
there has been a reduction of Government expenditure.
And the general conclusion
+£266 m
+£237 m
The report comments: "There is thus
a good opportunity in of Halifax the Treasury docs 1938 to stop the rise in prices Locs not think the time has which has troubled the country come yet to talk about plans for for 20 years." British exporters "Externally it may well prove are thus not able to import so bill went up by six per cent;
a lump la Brifkin..
losing reserves, and are thus llon representing between 10 weakened in their ability to and 11 per cent of personal in- -"ride out a period of difficulty come after tax), and the Gov-
to protect themselves.
venue account (2052 million without taking special measures comment's large surplus on re- compared with £418 million in Because there has been a 1950), helped to maintain
the fall in commodity prices, a general balance of the economy."" strain is being imposed on the
Most people took more out trado balances primary, pro- ducing countries, They are than they pist into the economy gosting less for their goods, and last year. The wage and salary' but real output was only one can succeed only if they stabilise that the United Kingdom will much,
achlove substantial current
and a half par cent higher. And In fact, the Treasury's force or reduce their prices.
eurplus on its balance of pay. World Industrial production gross trading profits also went cost t
cat balancing act
is likely to be less la the up more than reat output. between mere tradé and more. The high investment which monts in 1958."
been going On for But here she
Britain's hope this year in 10 the positions first half of this year than la out-of-work, with the shade of has a caning towards optimism, several years should provide for which could make.1058 dimeult, the first half of 1957, because put in more and take out loss,
(Economic US. recession is not likely on
1958, “Survey, Always assuming that President further expansion.
When the United States had this occasion to be outweighod· H.M. Stationery Office, Ja, net.) Kisenhower'a opilmism about the
climato A-Rs Inat recession Britain's economlo
in 1953, by expansion in Europe as it recession is justified.
"is 10 indationary than for and before that in 1949, the was in 1953.
QUOTE... by ox-Chancellor Me Pater. Thornuyorofă" on TVi several years, and this change rest of the world was gaining
This report also shows that *ir the U.S. 'accomslan: EVOL reflected in the gold and dollar, reserves from has been Increased confidence in sterling" the United States.
1967 helped to give 1930 a good on lang anehigh,of opuran 13 will Whợt. The report mys becSUBO But now most countries,, ex- start." If mys: "The high rate affect. There is certainly, no Hakan Kat Kat Kat Kathaikal Kad vas. 1 The the price of imports last mortages of manpower are lead cont. Westem Germany, are, of personal saving (1,600 mil cause for panic at the moment
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Ident watch for everyday wear.
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ROLEX
A landmark in the history of Time measurement
Here are reasons for expect ing a good year for Britain:
There was a substantial fall