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...make new nylon out of old was announced last month by Du Pont. This challenge to the wartime nylon shortage, with drives for old nylon, should mean that many of the 200 million pairs of nylon hose made during the past three years will be converted into parachute cloth, tapes and harness, glider tow ropes, other military goods...
Seven Wall Street investment houses, three insurance companies, two commodity manufacturers, a daily newspaper and a retired capitalist had fingered the Blue cloth and gone away-frightened by economic uncertainty and the future of radio broadcasting...
Starvation, endemic in China, is more acute in war, increases the hazard of epidemics. The Japs have added new plague foci by dropping infected grains of rice and shreds of cloth from planes on plague-clean areas...
...himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...percher (textile for inspector) is getting hard to find and it took a month to train a new man to spot all the possible defects in cloth as it comes off the looms. Dooley and Dietz bet they could reduce the month to half a day. They had the management get samples of all possible defects. They sewed the samples into a strip 75 yards long and put it on rollers. Then they had the No. 1 inspector teach them what to look for. They analyzed and sent for a green man. After watching the roll...