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...George Lansbury in Manhattan last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom gave a blue-&-white silk scarf, with an all-over design featuring the letters PAX. Before donning his scarf, and heading westward for peace meetings in 18 cities during the next month, Pacifist Lansbury spoke at a large gathering in Carnegie Hall. Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war. ... I advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First...
...Philadelphia the spotlight centered on four rangy, good-natured University of Texas runners who advertised their State's Centennial celebration by staging their first practice session in ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots, leather jackets. First day of the meet they changed to shorts and silk jerseys, trotted out to show spectators how they had smashed the world's record for the 880-yd. relay a fortnight before in Austin...
Despite the reassurances of the treasure's expert Chinese guardians, who said that no amount of shaking could harm it in its 90 silk-lined steel cases, His Majesty's Government spent a jittery three days before tugs succeeded in hauling the Ranpura off its bad spot...
...pound ball of the fibre, if straightened out, would stretch from coast to coast of the U. S. A woman's undergarment made of it could be concealed in the palm of the hand. It is 150% finer than any previous rayon, 33% finer than natural silk. It was developed almost simultaneously by three manufacturers and no one has an exclusive claim...
...Rubber, silk, cellulose and certain other organic compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same...