Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of dashing to his office at Hankow in a limousine with motorcycle escort, last week was whisked to work in a rickshaw escorted by guards on bicycles. Other Chinese bigwigs were warned to follow the Premier's example of thrift. The Government even discouraged the buying of silk and drinking of tea "as these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable retreat of the Chinese Government from Hankow...
...Proposed fair trade practice rules for the silk industry. As it has already done with the rayon industry, FTC at the request of certain members of the silk business drew up a proposed set of rules which will not go into effect until after a public hearing August 2. Points which upset the industry last week were that the label on silk state the exact proportion of metallic weighting and finishing materials in the goods, if any, and that the word "silk" may not be used in a firm's name unless a "substantial part" of its business...
...make silk, the silk worm reduces the cellulose in mulberry leaves to a protein liquid which it spins into a cocoon. Result of man's learning to imitate this technique is the 45-year-old rayon industry. A major source for the cellulose is "dissolving pulp," wood pulp processed further than for making newsprint. Last week, the largest "dissolving pulp" company in the world, Rayonier Inc., announced "the highest earnings in the history of the company and its predecessors"-$3,124,703 for the twelve months ended April 30; this was almost a million more than for the previous...
...took place at Indianapolis, Ind. There a convention assembled to nominate candidates, heard a new Republican Keynote sounded by Representative Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton, famed advertising man (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) and amateur evangelist (author of The Man Nobody Knows), has become fascinated by politics since Manhattan's silk stocking district elected him to Congress last year. Said he last week...
...Loesch-horn Etude. The audience in Manhattan's Town Hall gave her a big hand. Before the last clap had died out she had already launched a vigorous performance of a Moskowsky Pantomime. Subsequent applause was deafening. Pianist Nina walked to the platform exit, gave her little silk dress a hasty jerk and hurried out. Applause continued. Pianist Nina came back, walked a few inches further toward the centre of the platform, put her right foot back and gave another jerk to her dress, walked out with a sober air of finality. Next soloist was eight-year-old Anthony...