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...nationalist. Prices soared. After a short period of false prosperity, while merchants sold their stocks at wild prices, all business came to a standstill. Import taxes of 30% to 40% were levied on new goods, killing off store after store. The town's two big cotton and silk mills, supplied by Japanese silk and imported cotton from the U.S., shut down because the Communists did not know how to operate them, could not get new supplies...
...cabin behind were 15 ministers -chaplains of the Civil Air Patrol bound from Burbank, Calif, to a convention in Sacramento. When the word to hit the silk came back to them, Major Bertil Von Norman, pastor of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church and chaplain of the wing, called for prayer, and the heads bowed in silence. "Thy will be done . . . Thy will be done . . ." prayed Chaplain Von Norman to himself. Two minutes later, while the burning plane banked, he stood at the open door and began sending the sky pilots off into the air, one by one, with a slap...
...Mills, fat, feudalistic old Kakuji Natsukawa. He could not understand what his girls were striking about (TIME, July 5). Promises of honorable kindness-no time clocks to punch, free schooling, dormitories, libraries-had lured thousands of young girls off farms to work at $10 a month, and built his silk mills into Japan's sixth largest textile company. But honorable kindness, also meant that officials penned them up in their dormitories, opened their mail, blocked romance, forced them to attend Buddhist services and recite such catechisms as: "All this day I shall be happy to pour all my body...
...Silk Stockings (musical adaptation of Ninotchka by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, Cole Porter), with Don Ameche and Hildegarde Neff...
...Silk Screen, a hand stencil process using thick, opaque inks, a limited-edition medium, often expensive, which can reproduce heavily textured oils either very well or atrociously, depending on the craftsman...