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...been in another decade. On Christmas Eve, 1941, antiaircraft guns were set up in the backyards of West Coast cities. San Antonio's telephone system was jammed by a rumor-the Jap Fleet was cruising into the Gulf of Mexico. Electric toasters, alarm clocks, nylon stockings were still for sale. There were debutante balls at which orchestras played Blues in the Night. Everywhere, East, West and South, the people waited for air raids. Christmas, they thought, would be just the time the enemy would choose...
...Nylon stockings, the U.S. woman's sheerest postwar dream, will not be on the market until after Japan is beaten. Once again textile specialists last week blasted all full-fashioned hopes...
...duPont de Nemours & Co., which turned out enough nylon for 84,000,000 pairs of stockings in 1941, is expanding production. But the Army has again upped nylon requirements. Current needs are still estimated at twice current supply...
...postwar, U.S. women are promised: enough nylon for 450,000,000 pairs of stockings...
...steaming jungle that troops on the march throw them away, tuck their pants legs into their socks. The canvas jungle boot, which may also be worn, does not chafe but its rubber sole provides no arch support on long marches. The eventual solution may be a boot-shoe with nylon uppers and cleated rubber sole-if a way can be found to make the cleats stay...