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...female leg. Du Pont announced tersely that, "because of demand for military purposes," nylon would no longer be sold on contract but on a spot basis (i.e., if there was any to sell). That meant that hosiery makers would get no nylon. They had long since stopped getting silk...
...what silk the U.S. has left WPB tightened its grip last week, even at the Army's expense. After March 1 "no silk may be used in the manufacture of parachutes until the grade and type has been approved by the Defense Supplies Corp." Evidently the Army had been wastefully using it on parachute shroud lines and cords instead of saving it for canopies. If nylon is subjected to similar husbanding, women can at least feel that their sacrifice is necessary...
What will they wear instead? Of the 43,000,000 pairs of women's full-fashioned hosiery shipped last year, 7,000,000 were all nylon, 22,000,000 were all silk, and all but 1,500,000 of the rest were either silk or nylon from the knee down. Fortnight ago, WPB ordered the rayon industry to increase the percentage of its output earmarked for hosiery. But the increase (from 9 to 12% of the viscose and cuprammonium output and from 5 to 6% of acetate) was not enough to make up the difference in quantity, even...
...brethren, let it be known that, from this time henceforth, the lap of John Harvard be considered sacred. Let not the shiny silk of Hayward, Woodworth or Sheridan meet with it, and guard it likewise from the defiling touch of Cambers and his cronies. It is the lap we have fought for, gentlemen--the lap of John. And we have...
...Lady Paw Tun live in a mansion opposite Rangoon's City Hall, have two sons and a daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than his fingers...