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...house in order. That is a job which they may not be able to do alone. One of the great misfortunes of Italian antiFascists in the south is that they have been unable to bring help from German-occupied northern Italy, where political groups are stronger and the national fiber is tougher...
...Food & Fiber Act which provided state aid in the harvesting of crops...
...felt that at last it was about to give the nation's grocers and housewives something really & truly simple. Date of the gift is Feb. 27, but last week, well in advance, OPA was proudly explaining about its new change-making food tokens. The fiber tokens (see cut) will be red for meats and fats, blue for processed foods. Each token will be worth one ration point. All red and blue food stamps will be worth ten points, no matter what the figures already printed on them. Stamps will remain valid for twelve weeks instead of the current four...
Tojo and his home propagandists had their own reasons for presenting to the Japanese a dark portrait of the war; what they said and did for a calculated effect may have been exaggerated. But the fiber of Japan was certainly strained by grave material shortages, by malnutrition and overwork, by both known and intangible fears, by the absence of new victories. Tojo promised no relief: > All males between 14 and 40 (including students) must either fight or work in war plants. In 25 less essential occupations women will replace men. > All Government agencies, factories and schools which can be moved...
...Pont is cooking up surprises in nylon. So far nylon has been used mainly as a fiber - for stockings, toothbrushes, parachutes, aircraft tire cords, surgical sutures. But nylon is also a plastic of parts. Last week Du Pont reported some recent experiments with nylon as a solid plastic which would seem to indicate that after the war it may become almost as common and versatile an article as glass...