Word: nylons
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...bottles" are tubes of paper-thin, transparent plastic (cost: half a cent each). They are packaged as a roll of sterile tubing, sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...
...spring an ordinary man's fancy turns away from thoughts of study, but Joseph A. Dolan '49 rechannels his mind not to nylon hems but seersucker jackets, "the badge of the Harvard...
...While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor. Under the name of Astro-tone, it is widely used as a musk substitute. (Returning to bis original quest, Du Font's Carothers did women an even greater service by discovering nylon...
Most of the worst shortages had ended by year's end. Once-bare shelves were heaped with white shirts; nylon and meat lines melted away; "sale" was reintroduced into the language. There was more than there had ever been-at a price. In turning it out, the U.S., by any temperate standard, had done a giant...
...Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz both in prestige and at the box office. But in South America he outdraws them all, and Latin women bombard him with flowers and kisses. Tickets for a Brailowsky concert bring black-market prices. Says Brailowsky: "There is the line like you saw here for nylon stockings...