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...been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...
This word from the Cloth came opportunely for the chains, belabored by attacks by FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly made in current hearings before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In response to FCC's charges, the networks have assembled a battery of high-priced lobbyists, and rallied women's clubs and educators to their defense on the ground that a threat to them is a threat to their unsponsored cultural features. CBS has even printed 800,000 copies of a defensive "White Paper...
...China an American dollar goes a long, long way. If the Fund succeeds in making the yuan respectable, Manuel Fox expects a quick lift in China's trade. As late as last year, Japan-for a smuggler's price-sold China most of her imported cloth goods. Smuggling had been choked off to a trickle last week. But with money to give it strength, it would revive again...
Especially important to China are these cooperatives. Started with a scant $500,000 capital, they now include almost 3,000 small, mobile workshops back of the lines, support some 500,000 refugees, supply consumer goods (shoes, nails, bandages, coal, cigarets, books, cloth) worth around $6,000,000 a year. Their share of the United China Relief fund, about 10%, will help establish 30,000 new workshops that China needs...
...rationing order was put into effect to make sure that Britain's scant supply of clothing, footwear, cloth and knitting wool would be distributed as evenly as possible. Under the scheme everyone will get 66 clothes coupons a year, must surrender some with each purchase he makes. A man's suit will take 26 coupons, a woman's dress 11, shirts 5, pajamas 8, galoshes (adult) 4, bathing suit (adult) 4, silk stockings 2. Bombees will get extra coupons...