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However, in the past three months some startling innovations have been made. The Government now produces cotton at fixed prices and furnishes it to machine spinners. It distributes yarn to weavers, who cross it with hand-spun yarn to weave cloth. This is turned over at fixed prices to the Commodity Administration, which in turn sells it at Government stores at prices 25% lower than the market...
...rubber-reclaiming plants the scrap is first sheared and hashed into tiny pieces.It is then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...
...supply lines to India-source of 99% of world jute, from which burlap is made. With U.S. burlap stockpiles down to a bare three months' supply, something had to be done. It was. In March, WPB rated cotton-bagging at A2, only one notch below military cotton cloth. Month later Washington went a step further, forced all heavy-goods cotton mills to put 20-40% of their looms on cotton-bagging...
This became apparent last week in Manhattan, whither had swarmed retail-clothes buyers from 48 States to see the first collection of fashions wholly controlled by war needs. WPB, fashion's new dictator, had shaken clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
...Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work, but at first Revere was rattled. He had forgotten to bring his spurs and a cloth to muffle his oarlocks. A girl friend of one of the oarsmen gave them her petticoat ("still warm") for the oars. Revere used to tell his children how his dog ran home with a note from him and came back with the spurs. In his old age he described the beginning...