Word: rayonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...
...Mexicans, rayon (in bright colors) is as well loved as tequila and la corrida de toros. But the yarn had to be imported -first from Italy, and, after the war began, from Japan. U.S. yarn costs twice as much as Japanese, but the Japanese yarn is coarse and inferior, and Naselli began looking for some rayon-making machinery of his own. He found it some 3,000 miles away in Easthampton, Mass...
There the Hampton Co., cotton finishers, had set up a 1,500,000-lb.-per-year rayon plant as an experiment, discovered that American Viscose, Du Pont and Industrial Rayon were hard on newcomers, shut their plant in 1939. The machinery has been for sale ever since. Naselli bought it with money raised in Mexico, last week had men dismantling it for removal to San Angel, suburb of Mexico City. By mid-1943, says he, its production will be expanded to 6,000,000 lb., enough to make Mexico virtually self-sufficient in rayon...
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...