Word: rayon
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...Sales of ersatz coffee and "extenders," which boomed during rationing, dropped to almost nothing-probably an advance tip on what will happen to things like rayon stockings when war ends and silk and nylon are available again...
...upside-down effect: it began to squeeze out of the market OPA's favorite price policemen-the big-volume, low-unit-cost chains. By OPA's own admission, women's coats & suits that wholesaled for $6.75 in 1942 now sell for $8.75; $1.37½ rayon dresses are now $2.25, etc. One big Manhattan chain surveyed the fall market last week, found that whereas 108 manufacturers made coats to retail at $7.98 in the spring of 1942, there are none today; 128 made rayon dresses to retail at $1.98-$2.98 v. eight this fall...
Bugs in the Belfry Sirs: The cockroach that invaded The Bronx (TIME, Aug. 2) not only flies and is fond of beer, but is equally fond of rayon, insulation from wires and the goo from radio resistors...
...Rome, as a city of war industry, had aircraft, chemical and rayon factories, power plants, locomotive-repair yards...
...machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good Democrat, looked, nodded. His constituents are exasperated by bureaucratic bungling, are solidly behind Congress in its fights with the President, but as good Southern Democrats will not revolt from the Party or the President...