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...week was that of Brookings Institution's Edwin G. Nourse, who outlined a future for private enterprise in terms of its past. The enterprise system, he said, has already graduated from perfect freedom to a self-disciplined, professional, "scientific" form. "The low prices at which cellophane and nylon were introduced . . . were not due to a buyers' strike or to the direct competition of other companies. . . . It reflected a high type of scientific price-making on the part of the Du Pont Company...
...fall of 1939 Japanese silk suffered another blow when Du Pont introduced Nylon, whose elasticity threatened silk's enduring hold on the U.S. hosiery trade. Last summer, in spite of technology and economics. Japan's silk trade with the U.S. was still lively. Then it bumped smack into U.S. foreign policy. The silk crisis, like every other great factor in Japanese life, fell hard into the khaki laps of Japan's Army statesmen...
...gunman demanded $10 of a shopkeeper, got $11, gave the shopkeeper $1 change. In Berkeley, Calif., a burglar who knew his current events stole a silk dress, a silk step-in combination, a silk chemise, five pairs of silk stockings, a pair of satin pajamas, and two pairs of nylon stockings. In Indianapolis, a burglar made off with 11?, left his cold chisel, jimmy and shirt...
...Nylon can be eked out by mixing it with silk and rayon, making feet and tops of other yarns. But women may not like these hybrid stockings. And the Army may soon commandeer nylon...