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Chief hitch in the Mayor's program so far is lack of air-raid facilities. It would take a mort of heavy cloth to blackout New York City's 10,000,000 windows. Most big cities are so noisy that civilians cannot hear air-raid warnings. New York's Board of Estimate last week appropriated $25,000 to buy sirens. In the newspapers, OCD took full-page advertisements telling civilians what to do ("Keep cool. Stay at home. Put out lights.") if raiders come...
Coastal cities snapped up everything black that could be used for light-proofing: cloth, oilcloth, automobile-top covers. Stores pulled out old stocks that had been on the shelves since black petticoats and bloomers went out of style, sent orders for millions more to textile factories...
Officially, Henderson had not abandoned his ceiling on cotton grey goods; he had merely unhitched it and tied it to raw cotton prices. For every .44? a Ib. change in cotton prices (up or down from 15.99?) the price of cloth can change ½? a Ib. (starting at 43? for Class A print cloths...
...looked a little like Peter the Great, victor at Poltava (which Semion Budenny lost fortnight ago). One of the largest coal trusts in Russia was named for him. A city in the Caucasus, a town in the Ukraine, factories, collective farms changed their names to Budenny. The grey peaked cloth hat which used to be part of the Red Army uniform is called Budennovka. Among men who knew horses he became the incarnation of horsemanship, something approaching the upper half of a Centaur. Red cavalrymen sing...
...machine-gun post has been dug in the shape of a swastika. It is filled with used and unused clips of bullets, with tattered pieces of cloth, some lined in fleece, and with puddles of water still dyed with the unmistakable stain of blood...