Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...year's No.1 technological achievement owed nothing to war. But when Du Pont made nylon a commercial reality, they not only invaded the silk-hosiery business but gave Irving Air Chute Co. a new non-Japanese source of parachute cloth...
Industrial Shanghai was sinking fast. In the business not taken over by Japanese, import and export restrictions cut off raw materials and closed markets for the goods which could be manufactured. Cotton mills had reduced their output 30%. The tea and silk trades were at a standstill. U. S. oil companies were grimly bucking a Japanese attempt to establish a monopoly...
...James Lorimer Ilsley, Canadian Finance Minister, brought in his so-called "baby budget." which the House of Commons promptly passed. No baby, the budget slapped an immediate embargo on some $50,000,000 worth of annual imports from the U. S. Samples: automobiles, oysters, tobacco, comic strips, fiction magazines, silk fabrics. Other imports, such as trucks and petroleum products, it admits in limited quantities by special permit until Canada feels she can do without them...
...same goods. On some of them the tax was prohibitive. e.g., $1,200 on a $1,500 automobile. To help Britain pay for her increasing purchases of war goods in Canada, on the other hand, the budget removed all duties on a long list of British manufactures: cotton and silk goods, furniture, marmalade, soft coal...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian music lovers roosting in the precipitous galleries who had stood in line, some of them for 15 hours, for their $2 standing room. Thus the Metropolitan Opera once...