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...operation already, in Seaford, Del., is Du Font's $8,000,000 nylon plant, which can make nylon enough for some 10% of women's full-fashioned hose knitted in the U. S. And soon abuilding will be extensions to increase this capacity. In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose. If nylon sells nationally as well as it sells in Wilmington, Japan stands to lose something like $10,000,000 of her purchasing power in the U. S. Japan's sales...
Short-memoried newspaper readers still remember the gruesome case of John Warde, 26-year-old schizophrenic, who one morning last July climbed out on a 17th-story ledge of Manhattan's Hotel Gotham, eleven hours later jumped to a smashing death as 10,000 horrified watchers yelled: "There he goes...
...Ivan J. Gotham...
...Japanese Government stepped in and stopped trading for a few days. Nonetheless, the price climbed to 1,195 yen ($325) on April 19, stood last week at 1,160. When this 40% price rise began, the small group of U. S. branded hosiery makers (such as Gotham and Phoenix) which control their resale prices had already announced their spring prices. For fear that unbranded rivals would undercut them, they did not raise prices and continued to manufacture out of previously purchased supplies. Meantime the silk became harder & harder to buy. Last week the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers sent...
...went to my friends. ... I tried visiting firms in person. . . . Finally, believing that somewhere this side of a ledge at the Gotham there is a niche for me, I tried writing my story to well known persons in various fields, persons to whom job-getting would normally involve nothing more than a telephone call. There have been no replies. I am not from the tenements nor from the Junior League and assistance to me would bring them nothing of publicity or drama...