Word: rayons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ending Aug. 3 were 6% above last year. Automobile and chain-store sales were ahead. Most cheerful note of all was struck by the Federal Reserve Board, which last week published its long-overdue revised index of production. Adding 23 important but hitherto neglected industrial series (machinery, aircraft, liquor, rayon, chemicals, etc.) to its index, revising the weightings and employing a new base period (1935-39 instead of 1923-25), the Federal Reserve Board found business much better than its old index had shown. For June, the new index (if calculated as a percentage of 1923-25, like...
...these cases the Administration's methods had a spur-of-the-moment look, gave no hint of how prices might be controlled in the face of a real inflation. But last week that hint was given. The offending commodity: chemical wood pulp used for paper, rayon, explosives. The method: a round-table agreement. Franklin Roosevelt, in describing it, clearly indicated that his Defense Advisory Commission had established a precedent...
...Sears reductions included: cotton piece goods, 1.04%; cotton clothing, 1.25%; wool clothing, blankets, etc., 1.32%; silk goods, 10.22%; rayon, 1.3%; shoes and other leather goods, 1.96%; automobile tires & tubes, 2.32%; electrical appliances, 2.11%; floor coverings, 5.19%; building supplies, 2.35%; furniture...
...hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic, rags, onions, rice and tobacco. All told, the spread of war to the Mediterranean cost the U. S. a $316,439,000 export-import business, to be added to the $470,177,000 already lost in trade with Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and subsequent...
...most profitable post-war achievement of the U. S. merchant marine, must now content itself with calls at Lisbon. But no strategic material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce 100% of the world's supply. Last week Armstrong Cork's President Henning Webb...