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...late afternoon before the two friends got back to West Berlin. Gratefully, Congressman Chatham asked if he could do a favor in return. "Yes," said the Russian, "take me to a PX." There Chatham loaded his companion down with nylon stockings, cigarettes, three cans of chocolate sirup, three pounds of U.S. coffee and 15 candy bars, and bade him goodbye...
...first order of William H. Harrison, boss of the National Production Authority, put a ceiling on business inventories to prevent hoarding of scarce materials. The broad order, issued this week, covered 32 materials, all the way from iron, steel, copper, gypsum board and industrial alcohol to burlap and nylon yarn. (Retail buyers were not affected.) Businessmen were warned not to accumulate materials "beyond what is needed for immediate production...
...even causing such compensating annoyances and minor inconveniences .as gasoline cards, tin-can drives or cigarettes flavored with coffee. The nation's production lines went on spewing out gleaming new automobiles, television sets and dish washers. The U.S. had seldom had more sugar, meat, steel, gasoline, whisky and nylon, or more manpower for the mink coat, bubble gum and trout-fly trades. Though prices were edging higher (in part because of unblushing profiteers), so was employment...
...using Alpinists' gear-hook, rope and nylon sling-they reached the top safely, but cracked off a piece of the spire on the way down. The crash brought a policeman. Oxford's long-suffering town fathers found the two guilty of "public mischief," but postponed sentence, "to see what [the students] will do in the way of compensation...
...production to about 500,000 tons a year, enough to handle all civilian and military needs, barring global war. But it would also use up heavy supplies of benzene, a component of synthetic rubber, and thus create the prospect of shortages for industries which also use benzene in making nylon, plastics and detergents...