Word: rayons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulp magnified the confusion in paper. Since wood pulp is also a raw material for rayon and for explosives, and since the Scandinavian source was cut off, a pulp shortage was expected. But North America found it was self-sufficient in wood pulp, so long as it could not export it for lack of ships...
...doctor told how he finally traced the rash to its cause-the brilliant carmine nail polish used by the patient. The patches of rash at the back of the knees had him stymied, until the woman volunteered that she used colorless nail polish to stop runs in her rayon stockings...
...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...
...picnic. Fearing bare shelves when their stores were customer-packed, storekeepers last summer told their buyers to start buying more and buy it faster. They did. First they bought "hard" lines-radios, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, rubber goods, bicycles, typewriters, etc. Then they rushed after "soft" lines-woolen, cotton and rayon goods, stockings, dresses, men's suits, shoes, hats. To make sure they got enough, buyers quit the long-standing practice of buying only 60-90 days ahead, started buying for six to eight months. Last week many storekeepers were even placing Christmas orders...
...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...