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...gossamer Christmas vision tantalized Canadian women. Real full-fashioned silk stockings, said Ottawa newspapers, might be on the store shelves before Christmas. A shipment of silk hose was coming from Brazil. But the stockings would be expensive, could not be sold unless Canada's tough Price Controller Donald Gordon gave permission to lift the price ceiling...
Price Boss Gordon, easily aroused by any threat of higher prices, reacted characteristically. Said he: ". . . We are not going to be stampeded. . . ." The price of these stockings would be "fantastic." Anyway they are made with "silk obtained from Japan...
...Brazilian Embassy at Ottawa sharply corrected him: "Mr. Gordon has been misinformed. Brazil is now the third largest producer of silk in the world, and, as is the case of Canada, Brazil has had no commercial relations with Japan since Pearl Harbor...
...services to the Crown (supplying soldiers and bearers) in World War I. Again he went to London on business, as a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining company. He wore a heavy golden crown, a purple and gold toga. Wherever he went, a small black boy in silk knee breeches walked before him. The boy was the repository of Sir Ofori's soul. He also carried Sir Ofori's heavy ceremonial sword. A year ago Death, as it must to all men, came to Sir Ofori Atta in his ahinfie (palace...
...shimmering, moody Chinese Sung Dynasty landscape painted on silk, called A Fisherman's Abode after the Rain...