Word: rayon
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...from the drastic effect of this action on U.S. consumers (see p. 13), the commandeering meant curtains for most of the 500 U.S. silk-hosiery manufacturers, their 97,000 employes. Another 78,000 workers in silk textile lines faced work curtailment. To mitigate the shock, OPM last week ordered rayon producers to allocate 10% of their output to silk mills. Only the finest rayon will do for hosiery, and it is hard...
...away with Mrs. Bloomer's famed undergarment. She instructed camp tailoresses: "Take an inch up on the shoulder, raise the shoulder line, shorten sleeves, give more wrapover in front. . . ." Busting tradition as wide open as the male generals who tolerated tanks in place of horses, she made rayon panties standard equipment for the A.T.S...
...Philadelphia, whose hosiery mills gross $25,000,000 a year, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers stopped wage negotiations with manufacturers, turned its attention instead to asking Washington to speed up production of nylon (now supplying 18% of U.S. hosiery needs), mercerized cotton, rayon, other silk substitutes...
Japanese textile factories operate at 40% of capacity. Staple-fiber-a species of rayon made of wood fiber-kimonos (which fall apart after several washings), staple-fiber suits (that curl up in the rain), staple-fiber diapers (that scratch babies' bottoms) have replaced the old fabrics; and even these are rationed...
Textile makers had tough sledding during the Cárdenas regime, when the workers took over about one-third of Mexico's rayon industry. The count eluded them by employing 16-to-18-year-old, soft-fingered (best for rayon working) girls and paying them six pesos a day (2½ pesos is the minimum wage). Mexican working girls, even though unmarried, take advantage of their right to a 40-day maternity leave with pay each year, followed by two half-hour baby-feeding periods daily...