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...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...
...save $2,000,000 worth of nylon, paper, ink and printing, Treasury employes will dust off some long-stored bundles of pre-Roosevelt Federal Reserve gold notes, put $4,200,000,000 worth into circulation. They won't be, as promised on their face, "redeemable in gold on demand." Like all New Deal Federal Reserve notes, they may be exchanged only for "lawful money of the United States," i.e., smaller bills or coin...
Ravishing beauties in Cairo's biggest air-conditioned department store stand behind counters loaded with perfumes, nylon stockings, leather goods, flashlights, cameras. Americans and Britons flock to Saint James's restaurant for thick, juicy steaks. Menus in all the best restaurants list hors d'oeuvres, fish, entrees, desserts and coffee, and most people order right down the list. Fashionables dine at the Continental Roof Garden, where Hekmet, the famed and sexy belly-dancer, excites the audience nightly...
...first entirely home-grown U.S. paper money was put into test circulation last week by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. No one spotted the difference: nylon, instead of silk threads, in the bills...
...Unhappy members of the $60,000,000 U.S. brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen...