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...Director of Civilian Clothing Sir Thomas Barlow ordered 1,200 firms to manufacture "utility cloth" of wool and fiber. All men's suits will henceforth be single-breasted, have no trouser cuffs, no sleeve buttons. (For similar news of men's fashions in the U.S. see p. 13.) Women will wear shorter skirts -17 inches from the ground -less embroidery, no pleats...
...London Economist reported that Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie was producing a new artificial fiber, Perlon-Silk, claimed to be the equal of Du Font's nylon...
...Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr. (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.); Donald Comer (Avondale Mills); Robert M. Gaylord (Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.); Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp.); Charles Hook (American Rolling Mill Co.); Thomas R. Jones (American Type Founders, Inc.); Reuben Robertson (Champion Fiber...
Hemp. The U.S. gets over 90% of its hemp fiber from the Philippines, especially the Province of Davao, where most of the growers and exporters are Japanese. No official figures are available of bales on hand, but estimates place reserves at six to eight months' supply...
Author of the poll: young, blond William T. Reed, Chicago candymaker who, four years after he graduated from Purdue, invented fiber-rope handles for lollipops. (He claims they are safer than the old wooden sticks.) The Reed name for the safety suckers: "Paloops." Mr. Reed, who has a two-year-old son of his own, got lists from summer camps, Sunday schools and Y.M.C.A.s, sent out 10,000 questionnaires. He was so pleased with his poll's results that he planned another one, thought he might keep right on with...