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...Pittman deplored giving a Republican such a good break so Secretary Hull made the denunciation off the State Department's own bat, suddenly dramatically, after dinner one evening in time to catch the next morning's front pages. Immediate foreign effect was to shrink Japan's swelled head over making Britain knuckle under and to start Japan fuming worriedly about her source of war materials after next January when the U. S. embargoes could be voted...
...more than a century the slums of America have each year grown in size. In 1939, they have begun to shrink...
Last week there was jubilation in the city's poorhouses. The Department of Hospitals announced that henceforth paupers will have a choice of nightshirts or pajamas, suits cut like tailors' advertisements and shrink-proof, shoes of 1938; that pauperesses will get flowery percales, felt hats for winter, straws for summer, stockings still cotton but in stylish tan. As a special treat, garters will be issued to both sexes. Reason: the city discovered that the paupers' clothes were so old-fashioned they had to be made to order; it will be cheaper to buy modern clothes from stock...
...Shrink-Proof Wool A wool fibre consists of: 1) the cortex (scaly outer layer), 2) elasticum (inner layer), 3) core. If soaked in water, the elasticum and core contract, pulling the cortex with them and shrinking the wool 10 to 30%. For years chemists have searched for a way to "lubricate" these inner parts to prevent shrinking, but most of them failed.* The treatments either made the wool scratchy, bleached its dyes or damaged its durability. Last week the U. S. granted two patents on processes which make wool shrink-proof but promise not to harm...
...synthetic wool are two Government chemists named Stephen P. Gould and Earl O. Whittier. They produced the fiber by a method similar to that used in making rayon from cellulose. The finished product is straw-colored, resembles the best grade, washed and carded Merino wool, but will not shrink so much and is mothproof. By varying the acids used in curdling the milk they claim they can make a soft, silky grade or a hard, stronger type of yarn. Although Messrs. Gould and Whittier do not know exactly what it will cost to produce synthetic wool commercially, they are certain...