DuPont
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DuPont, the main company that made the tights or the stockings, they said they would make 360 million pairs as soon as the war ended within a year, and they could not live up to that at all.
from 294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 at 00:20:44 · read transcript
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Duperu. Yeah. Sorry. pronoun. Sorry, pronoun. Super Duperu. Okay. That was an acronym. It stood for DuPont pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Yes. DuPont was the manufacturer. Yeah. Yeah. We should say why they banned it? Because the reason it was so amazing was that it was another material which replaced silk, basically. Before the war, America imported, I think it was 80% of all the silk made in the world was imported.
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Cool. Yeah. Sorry for announcing that round. Super Dupero. Super Dupero. Okay. That was an acronym. It stood for Dupont pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Yes. Dupont was the manufacturer. Yeah. Yeah. We should say why they banned it. Because the reason it was so amazing was that it was another material which replaced silk, basically. When the war, America imported, I think it was 80% of all the silk made in the world was imported.
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