Word: rayons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nylon can be eked out by mixing it with silk and rayon, making feet and tops of other yarns. But women may not like these hybrid stockings. And the Army may soon commandeer nylon...
...Manhattan shopper bought three dozen pairs of rayon panties. Said the salesgirl: "Do you suppose she thought there was going to be a rayon shortage?" (P.S.: Maybe there...
...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...
...Burlington, N.C., for example, a shutdown would affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon, and that women will buy rayon hose, 3) to urge Du Pont to relax its rule that nylon hose can contain no rayon or cotton. Half North Carolina's mills can knit nylon, but as yet only...
...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...