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Monsanto Chemical Co. last week turned up with some new chemical processes which produce: ¶ Silk and nylon stockings that...
Tracked. In Washington, the Treasury Department told how it caught up with David Fixman, a former railroad employe who obtained $843,000 worth of orders for nonexistent nylon hose; he was turned in by a prospective woman buyer who had no use for railroad...
...Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than piano wire) and knives almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor sharpness of his machete by clipping tough field grass with lazy swings. Another...
Where food is sufficient, the biggest lack is clothing. For silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
...Pont this week announced a new product as highly potential as its nylon. It is wood impregnated with chemicals which transform it into a hard, polished material. Engineers call it "compreg...