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Married. Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, 26, of the Cellophane-Nylon-gunpowder dynasty, and Arminda Rea Dunning, 20, of New Jersey; in Manhattan...
...Besides plastic combs and nylon stockings America also sends us many thick, colorful weeklies. The one . . . best known here is the magazine TIME. Since the Dutch press is still fighting the paper shortage and therefore cannot keep us well enough informed, many look for additional news in the columns of this attractive magazine...
Such frenzied advertising flashes, emitted largely by the radio and Sunday newspaper comic section ads, have heralded the postwar return of "premiums," the somewhat mysterious business in which everything from atomic rings to nylon stockings can be bought at cut prices with the proper number of box tops, soap wrappers, etc. Ever since 1851, when Benjamin Talbot Babbitt, the father of packaged soap, got the idea of offering sentimental chromos for 25 Babbitt's Best Soap wrappers, premiums have helped sell thousands of items...
Surplus Silk. U.S.C.C. has already badly snarled Japan's exports of raw silk by paying no attention to the fickle taste of U.S. women. After five silkless years, they had learned to like Nylon better than silk in stockings, slips and girdles. Nor did U.S.C.C. mind its economic law. The first silk shipments sold at an average of $9.79 a pound. But as more silk came into the U.S. the auction price skidded until it hit $4.70 last February. Manufacturers who had been caught in the falling market stopped buying. To protect them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average...
...soldiers. Most graves were found through the patient questioning of local natives. One body was traced through the discovery of a short-snorter bill, another after quizzing a woman who wore an identification disk as an ornament, several through coolies who were found wearing shirts of parachute nylon...