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...Stockings. Into department-store receptacles U.S. women last week started to drop used silk and nylon stockings, run beyond repair, which the Government wants. Nylon will be reprocessed and used for something the Government is keeping a secret. Silk (which burns without leaving an ash) will be rewoven into powder bags...
...even Australian and U.S. nurses had to glance aside lest they blush at the spectacle of grimy soldiers bathing in the nude under roadside showers. One U.S. soldier, seeing the General one morning before breakfast, ran back to his comrades, exclaimed: "He was under the trees in a pink silk dressing gown with a black dragon on the back...
...least one respect and for at least one use. Yet none claims to be perfect. Each will improve with further research, and ought to supersede natural rubber in its special field. Rubber itself may never regain its pre-war place, may join natural dyes, lacquers, resins, and perhaps silk in limbo...
...Bergh was granted police powers by New York State authorities, soon became the terror of all horse drivers. He would go into battle in a high silk hat, waxed moustaches, gleaming gold scarf pin, yellow kid gloves, Prince Albert coat. When he pointed his accusing cane, police would drag an offending driver from his seat, haul him into court. If drivers argued, Bergh often knocked their heads together with his own well-manicured hands...
...turned to bodybuilding, ran famed gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from Bob Fitzsimmons, who was 44 at the time, and hit him only once in 13 rounds. O'Brien batted 21-year-old Middleweight Stanley Ketchel around for eight rounds in 1909, when...