Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pair. Department stores followed suit. Silk men said that their present stocks will last about two months. After that, most women will have to wear cotton stockings or go barelegged. The Department of Agriculture announced that it has developed more than 150 new designs for cotton hose, including a cotton-web mesh for evening wear. The supply of nylon (which many women would rather wear than silk) is limited, will amount to only 40% of the market for full-fashioned hose when Du Pont's present plant expansion is completed next year...
...affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon, and that women will buy rayon hose, 3) to urge Du Pont to relax its rule that nylon hose can contain no rayon or cotton. Half North Carolina's mills can knit nylon, but as yet only...
...give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size by a magic ring, sound tiny, a 50-ft. length of garden hose was rigged up through which an actor's voice was piped into a button mike after going through a standard mike and a mixer...
...bleeding canker disease, which appeared in New England ten years ago and makes trees ooze from small fissures, is now being treated by injections like those given to man and animals. A small hole is bored into the trunk, a rubber hose inserted and connected with a slow-seeping bottle of organic chemicals...
...Recalled that in December he had explained the Lend-Lease idea by comparing it to a person who lends his garden hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire. Last week, checking over the first list of non-military items asked by the British Purchasing Commission, Mr. Roosevelt noted the last three entries. They provided for a total of 900,000 feet of fire hose; cost...