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[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon loves military connections.....

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 5:22 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Stanley Koteks name, a homophone for the sanitary napkin, has a military
> background. The cellucotton that provides absorbency came from WWI, where
> it was developed for bandages. The nurses recognized its value and began to
> use the bandages for themselves. After the war, Kimberley-Clark, the
> company who made cellucotton needed a market. A Winifed Heitmeyer designed
> the pad, but the patent was assigned to a subsidiary of Kimberley Clark,
> sort of the very patent theft that Stanley complains about.
>
> In solidarity,James
>
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