Word: rayon
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...spend money as thriftily as possible while buying quality. High-priced pattern sales have increased more than cheap ones. Vogue pattern sales (30?-$2) are way ahead of Hollywood patterns (15?-25?). In fabrics the good materials are selling best. Silks are virtually sold out. Even rayon sales...
...bumptious Mr. Guthrie bounced out, he bounced a rock off U.S. industry's head. He accused woolen and cotton manufacturers, carpet makers, nylon and rayon makers, leathermen of failing to cooperate in war work. Next day he denied that he was sore at the manufacturers, said that he had resigned "because of the conditions that exist within the WPB." There was too much inside opposition, said he, to a "really all-out effort...
...pairs of women's full-fashioned hosiery shipped last year, 7,000,000 were all nylon, 22,000,000 were all silk, and all but 1,500,000 of the rest were either silk or nylon from the knee down. Fortnight ago, WPB ordered the rayon industry to increase the percentage of its output earmarked for hosiery. But the increase (from 9 to 12% of the viscose and cuprammonium output and from 5 to 6% of acetate) was not enough to make up the difference in quantity, even if women liked rayon stockings, which they...
...continued to knock the frosting off the U.S. economy. He stopped production of Christmas-tree and advertising-light bulbs, of brass eyelets for shoes, ordered a 50% cut in tin cans for beer, coffee, tobacco, oil, dog food. As its first move into international problems, WPB allocated 4% of rayon production to Latin America...
...last week approved the allocation of 218,000 metric tons of scarce U.S. tinplate to 19 Latin American countries* enough to stock their canners for this season. By this week's end, similar allocation approvals were expected on iron & steel, tanning materials, soda ash, farm equipment, anhydrous ammonia, rayon, cork, borax and acetone; eventually on 101 products...