Word: rayons
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...away, and the mediums, probably striking from newly won fields on Sicily turned south again, they gave side attention to another railway yard, several airdromes. Among other targets available for later raids: power plants built close to religious and cultural shrines; army barracks along the Tiber; aircraft, chemical and rayon factories on the city's outskirts...
...trying to maintain a blanket ceiling on all prices; 2) in England, most cost-of-living items are imported, which makes Government control much simpler and cheaper; 3) in both Canada and Britain wage control has been facturers will make no more than the prewar number of cotton and rayon blends...
There is plenty of cotton-though supplies of cotton textiles are declining because demands have been greater and manpower less. Rayon should be scarcer next year; military demands for superduty rayon cord for synthetic tires will take an increasing proportion of the supply...
...powder puffs as war supplies? Wrong, said Mr. Stettinius: the U.S. has no Lend-Lease dealings with Bermuda, never shipped a can of beer or a powder puff. (Possible origin of the rumor: to fill empty space on a Lend-Lease ship to North Africa, the Government sent some rayon stockings, sold them for cash, used the francs to buy hemp and cork...
Merchandise. Soft goods will be in fairly good supply, with more woolens available, but civilians will not get as much cotton cloth and less than 50% of the 1943 rayon yarn production. Men's haberdashery will tend more & more to ersatz fabrics. Perfumes and toilet goods will be cut by war demands for alcohol. Notions, blouses, handbags will be difficult to obtain. Draperies, rugs and carpets are already so tight that one West Coast retailer placed an order for 1,000 rugs of any color, any pattern and any size provided they could be retailed for less than...