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...simplified!" he announced in 1931. Since then he has simplified with a vengeance. Not to mention Italy's shipping lines which most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running...
...Spalding & Co. 2,660D 1,011D Cities Service 20,510* 22,769* Dome (gold) Mines 2,196* 1,690* Electric Bond & Share 13,566† 25,050† Hart, Schaffner & Marx 4,015D 2,994D Industrial Rayon 237 683 Stahl-Meyer (meats) 64D 66 United Corp. 13,824 18,445 U.S. Pipe & Foundry 1,273D 1,012 White Rock...
Meanwhile Nadezhda was plugging through a three-year course from which she expected to emerge the Director of a Soviet Rayon Trust. There was disagreement last week as to whether she graduated last July or would have graduated this December. She was last seen alive (by foreigners) on Sunday, Nov. 6, enjoying a performance at Moscow's Grand Theatre...
...standard dress silk. When the good news came last month, silk mills had little rough crepe in stock. So great and so urgent was the demand that silk men last week were vainly trying to buy from each other to satisfy orders. A good part of the silk & rayon industry's 125.000 operatives had already trooped back to re-opened mills. Consumption of raw silk last month jumped to 60,000 bales-up 29% from last year and the highest monthly taking in nearly two years. Japanese farmers clop-clopped about their sericulture more cheerfully, for the sudden demand...
Rough crepe is an old silk product but the demand for it has always been nominal. All crepes are woven on large looms with some threads highly twisted. When the cloth is removed these threads tend to untwist, giving it a rough or pebbly appearance. Rayon, though not so elastic as silk, is also used for crepes and rayon mills are sharing in the present boom...