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...little town of Nanty Glo* in west Pennsylvania's Blacklick Valley lay deserted in the rain. On Roberts Street, where most of the town's stores are, trade was at a standstill. A few women in cloth coats, hunched under umbrellas, trudged through the cold downpour that denied the spring time promise of the imperceptibly greening hills. The rain came down ceaselessly, sluicing and gurgling through the empty back yards, past privies and chicken coops, under the broken wooden sidewalks, running at last into the muddy waters of Blacklick Creek, the narrow stream that bisects the town...
King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap...
Last week's high point came before 20,000 people, jampacked into New York's Madison Square Garden. Behind her on the crowded stage spread a vast grey-blue cloth backdrop, on which was emblazoned a huge red Chinese ideograph meaning victory. In a long black dress, gold-trimmed, wearing green earrings, black gloves, she looked more like next month's Vogue than the avenging angel of 422,000,000 people...
Warm winds from the southwest blew across the southern Ukraine last week. From Kharkov to the Sea of Azov the snow began to melt and the rich black earth steamed. Red Army men took off their cloth helmets and marched bareheaded. Tankers lifted their turrets and breathed lungfuls of the fresh, clean...
Merchandise. Soft goods will be in fairly good supply, with more woolens available, but civilians will not get as much cotton cloth and less than 50% of the 1943 rayon yarn production. Men's haberdashery will tend more & more to ersatz fabrics. Perfumes and toilet goods will be cut by war demands for alcohol. Notions, blouses, handbags will be difficult to obtain. Draperies, rugs and carpets are already so tight that one West Coast retailer placed an order for 1,000 rugs of any color, any pattern and any size provided they could be retailed for less than...