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...Women must still wait for nylons (Byrnes's explanation: "When I thought we had all the nylon we needed for parachutes, I found we needed it for tires. Then, when we found we had all we needed for tires, we were told that cotton netting used in the Pacific was rotting and we'd have to use nylon there. Then it was decided that knapsacks could be made much lighter with nylon...
...Walter Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute: stainless steel stockings for women. They are still only a laboratory curiosity, but major steel producers, taking the project seriously, have made stainless steel threads which they say can be woven into steel stockings as sheer as silk or nylon...
...find just before Christmas 1943: 400-odd electric train sets. Thus, when the stocks of competitors were running out, Gimbel stores were boldly advertising sales of scarce goods. Many a new customer was thus lured into a Gimbel store. Example: the chain's $3½-million-inventory of nylon and silk stockings lasted well into 1943, an irresistible lure for women who buy an estimated 85% of all retail merchandise sold...
...A.A.F.'s experimenters at Wright Field started working on the stunt four years ago. A plane dangling a nylon rope and a hook on the end of a long pole snatched 50-lb. dummies off the ground. Then a sheep was tried. The first one was hauled into the plane with its neck broken. The process was gentled until experimenters were finally ready to try the trick on a man. Lieut. Alex Doster volunteered...
Bundled in a special harness, lying (in the foetal position, which was thought to be safest) between two poles which held up a nylon loop, Doster watched a Stinson Voyager plane swoop down, suddenly felt himself lifting easily. ("No jerking sensation at all.") A winch pulled him up into the belly of the plane...