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Reason for this extreme action was to hoard all U.S. silk supplies for military use (chiefly powder bags and parachutes). At month's end visible supplies were 47,000 bales. Last week the crack Japanese liner Tatuta Maru, after much legal backing & filling, unloaded its 5.568 bales on San Francisco docks (see cut). Five other ships added another 11,000 bales, bringing U.S. supplies to 63,000 bales. This was about three months' civilian supply. It would fill all defense needs, said the Army, for two years...
...defense, silk is important in parachutes (which take 10 lb. each) and powder bags used to fire big guns. For parachutes, the U.S. could substitute synthetics such as nylon, but only silk (because it burns completely and leaves no residue) can be used for powder bags. Present U.S. stocks of silk are about 53,000 bales in warehouses. 35,000 bales held by mills, enough to satisfy civilian needs for nearly four months or defense needs (according to one Washington estimate) for about three years. To conserve this supply 0PM at week's end took control of all silk...
...pinch caught the U.S. with virtually no munitions industry except a few Army arsenals. ("We were proud of our lack of militarism," said Bob Patterson.) As of last week the Army Ordnance Department had built or under way 21 plants for powder, TNT, etc., was already getting some production...
...Lunch and dinner: potatoes prepared in many ways, Kommissbrot (bread made from coarse whole rye, rich in vitamin B), all sorts of cheeses, milk, sour milk or milk powder (it stays fresh for eight months), rice, beans, peas, oats and barley, dried vegetables, dried and preserved fruits. "Fresh vegetables are given in great quantities," and all cooking water is used again for soups and sauces to save vitamins and minerals...
...Beef powder. Broadcast BBC last week: "Mr. J. B. Cramsie, former chairman of Australia's Meat Council, declared that this meat powder might solve Britain's meat storage and transport problem . . . as it needs no refrigeration and takes only a fraction of the cargo space needed for untreated meat...