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...Stronger than steel, withstood shell fragments as successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
...cotton goods business. In a short reach of half a dozen run-down blocks lie many of the country's biggest and oldest cotton textile houses and the starchy Merchants and Arkwright clubs for Worth Street. Worth Street firms sold more than $2 billion worth of cotton cloth and yarns in 1947-90% of the output of all U.S. mills...
Last week Worth Street was full of trouble. It started with a buyers' strike last spring. This month the Government predicted a whopping 15,169,000-bale cotton crop. On the New York Cotton Exchange, cotton futures promptly slid off $4.50 a bale. Print cloth went to 25? a yard, off 13? from its year-end high, and there were few buyers. Some thought the slump on the Cotton Exchange would bring down textile prices further. Over & over, customers told Worth Street factors: "We're waiting for lower prices...
...Style. No one saw any basic changes. The New Look was still the style. The only notable trend was an extravagant use of material (as much as 40 yards of cloth in one dress alone) which marked the collections of such New Look creators as Christian Dior...
...bushy member of the bovine family which contributes transportation, housing (its hair is woven for tent cloth), milk, butter, meat, and a common word in crossword puzzles...