Word: rayonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, the coal industry was not meeting the demand either. Some British industries (rayon, chemicals, pottery and toys) were booming. But their output was restricted by lack of coal. Last week 500 of Britain's industrial plants had only one week's fuel supply. By Easter the coal-burning British railroads would have to reduce traffic or else some industrial plants would have to close down altogether...
Drapes of eggshell rayon silk, fully a verst of it, hung from the ceiling to the floor. Behind the table stood a large portrait of Stalin, edged in red. There was no soft music, no suave couturiers. The mannequins (rather plump) sported no fancy make-up or nifty hairdos. Commissars, scholars, artists faced the circular platform. Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina (Madame Molotov), head of the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, was there, chatting brightly with Textiles Vice Commissar Dora Moissevna Khazan. In Moscow's House of Fashions, tailors and dressmakers of the state were displaying what the well-dressed tovarish should wear...
...Wanted at Home. Domestic consumption of cotton has been dropping steadily for three years. Textile mills, short of manpower, have used less. And synthetics, which have been getting steadily cheaper and better, have taken over cotton markets. Example: in 1935, no rayon was used in U.S. tire fabrics; last year, tire makers used the equivalent of about half a million bales of cotton. (Rayon is now actually cheaper than cotton when wastage in manufacture is counted...
...forced to increase its planting till it is now an exporter. Other onetime customers of the U.S. may not buy either, because they: 1) cannot buy without U.S. loans; 2) would rather buy in non-U.S. markets, thus save what dollars they have; 3) would rather use rayon made from their own forests...
...Rayon prices have dropped from 63? a pound in 1928 to 26?. In 1920, the U.S. produced rayon fibers equivalent to roughly 23,000 bales of cotton; 1944 production was equivalent to 1,700,000 bales. Average U.S. cotton crop: around 12,000,000 bales...