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...topics barred-but "the participation of the people is being hampered by their anxieties over the problems of living." ¶ Unless food can be imported, some Japanese will starve this winter. For exports, Japan could provide up to 2,000 tons of tea and 135,000 bales of raw silk. To preserve silk for export, MacArthur has forbidden the Japs to use it themselves. ¶ After a long ban on unions, workers are now allowed to organize, and "emergence of a strong unified labor movement" is in prospect. ¶ Businessmen had been under Government control so long they found...
...King would have liked his ministers and gentlemen to wear their state uniforms of red & gold with white doeskin breeches, white silk stockings and buckled shoes. But the uniforms cost $500 each, and Labor is in power. The invitations read: "Dinner jacket or day dress...
...list came out was Signor Gammarelli, the thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough...
...sailor was drunk. He held a half-empty bottle of whiskey as he swooped into a silk and fur shop. The half-dozen Chinese clerks inside looked apprehensively at each other...
Drunk as he was, the sailor knew what he wanted. "Where's your silk scarves?" A Chinese clerk got some out. The sailor pawed through them and took another drink. Then he wobbled across the room to the fur counter, with clumsy furtiveness stuffed a piece of fur under his heavy pea jacket and moved back to the silk...