Word: rayonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rarity. In Fort Worth, the only item reported missing after a three-day Army showing of several million dollars' worth of equipment was a pair of rayon WAC panties, with real elastic...
Last week G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself added a lurid footnote to the shoe shortage: shoes, he said, were the third biggest item in a mounting flood of hijacking. (The first two: liquor and rayon...
...synthetic-rubber situation, which seemed well in hand when Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers resigned last month, was somewhat out of hand again last week. Five major tire makers warned of a possible breakdown in tire making, chiefly because of shortages in manpower and rayon cord. The total tire reserve was down to less than 3,000,000. The manufacturers doubted that they could meet the goal of 30,000,000 new tires next year. And some disappointed motorists began to raise doubts about the quality of synthetic-rubber tires...
...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...