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...camp (Wishery) was a woman condemned for selling six pairs of silk stockings. Her sister in San Francisco had sent her the stockings. In Vladivostok, where she was living then, a pair of silk stockings would fetch 15 roubles ($7.50) and she was poor. After her arrest, carrying her 3-year-old daughter, she had traveled, largely on foot, some 15,000 mi. to the camp...
Ceylon sunbeams beat wickedly last week on the high silk topper of Australia's arch-protectionist Prime Minister, James Henry Scullin, the Laborite who has ringed his Dominion with both a tariff wall and a barbed wire circle of embargoes (TIME, July...
...casket business is no static affair. A flux of styles from decade to decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk...
Into voluntary bankruptcy in Manhattan last week went Amalgamated Silk Corp., one of the largest silk manufacturers, long a money-loser. But while Amalgamated surrendered to the industry's depression, other silk manufacturers helped themselves by a neat economic stratagem...
...House's Great Hall Winnipeg gave a crimson silk flag, 54x41 in. fringed in red, white and blue, bearing the city's arms...