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...many a Chinese soldier knows, the Japanese shells that tore his body were made from U.S. scrap iron. Last week the circle was complete: silk that had gone from Japan to the U.S. was going to China, to be used as bandages. The silk, too, was a kind of scrap: old silk stockings...
...years Dermatologist Thomas W. Ross of Portland, Ore. has used silk stockings as emergency bandages to hold dressings in place. They were cool, comfortable, easy to apply and clean. A month ago he suggested that the women of the U.S. save their silk stockings for first-aid work instead of throwing them away when they got runs...
...heads together, Dr. Ross, Patric and Dr. Ting D. Lee, local head of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, drafted a circular to be packed with every 25 pairs of stockings. Written in Chinese and illustrated with drawings and photographs (see cut), it showed how to apply silk-stocking bandages...
Robert Roy Nathan, a whizbang young (33) economist from OPM's statistics division. Tall (6 ft. 1 1/2 in.), husky (some 200 lb.), black-haired Bob Nathan worked his way through University of Pennsylvania as a tutor, reporter, Real Silk stocking salesman, got into defense work via the Department of Commerce and National Resources Planning Board. No armchair thinker, he was an all-out expansionist even in the early days of defense; helped get the "Victory Program" adopted. Even Old Dealers think him one of the best young Government career...
...Silk stockings...