Word: raw-silk
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...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. 0PM had snatched up all available stocks (see p. 57). There was just no more silk for stockings...
...manufacture of those articles, only a trifling percentage of U.S. raw-silk imports has been used but unless substitutes are found the pain of doing without them will not be measured by the quantity of silk they contained...
...Gumi (Co.) to manufacture silk in an obscure village on the shores of beautiful Lake Suwa. The silk business grew, slowly at first, then more swiftly as the countrymen of Commodore Perry came to desire more and more silk. U. S. silk consumption swelled from 80,000 bales in 1900 to 500,000 bales in 1929, of which the U. S. took 73%. This was wealth to the Kata-kura brothers. In 1920 they recapitalized their company at 52,000,000 yen, gave it a more resounding name: Katakura Seishi Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (Katakura Raw-Silk, Spun Silk Manufacturing...