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...Paix autumn had already come. And on hand for its coming was an excited little army of U. S. dress buyers who crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses with oilcloth grapes. Soon...
...munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont plant was dismantled. Hopewell was again about to fade off the map when Tubize Artificial Silk Co. built a new plant on the site of the du Pont factory, began making something new out of nitrocellulose ? rayon...
Horizontal shading on the upper sections of the girl's thighs might be mistaken for the shadow cast by short panties made of leaded silk. But Photographer Fuchs, a shy, domesticated gentleman, is certain that the lines are the edges of his cut-out screen which did not even up the two degrees of exposure perfectly...
...General G�ring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
Manhattan's historic Hanover Square has been a trading place for staples ever since clipper ships poked their prows across its cobblestones in the time of George I. The Commodity Exchange was formed there in May 1933 by a merger of the Rubber, Silk, Metals and Hide Exchanges. All four had been sponsored by the same group of commodity traders? Francis Robinson Henderson, who made and lost fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange...