Word: nylons
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...love life of the silkworm had become a matter of grave national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...
Last week, in spite of this preoccupation with the past, he symbolized a phenomenon of modern U.S. life which was as familiar to most citizens as the forward pass and nylon stockings-the nation's Community Chests. In a cynical age Charles Francis Adams had never questioned the precept that the man who accepted success or social position thereby accepted responsibility toward 'other men. Neither had he lost faith in the New England belief that a family or a community must care for its own. And after eleven years as president of the Greater Boston Community Fund...
...That! In Detroit, Charles E. Depew meekly ducked dishes, books, shoes thrown at him by his wife, rebelled when she asked him to stand in a nylon line, got a divorce...
...heard rumors of a struggle for power, a merging of talent. Some said Mickey Cohen might end up as the city's No. 1 business man. Benny began to be seen with one George Levinson, a Chicagoan with wide experience who had come West to enter the profitable nylon black market...
...when she saw him on a train. Then Mistinguett, who at 70-odd still boasts "la plus belle jambe de France," took a shine to him, made him her leading man. In the U.S., his press-agents call him "the French Frank Sinatra," adding archly, "who appeals to the nylon-soxers...