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...fell to earth, wrapped in silk, and groaning. David took him prisoner...
Acknowledging the hole nylon has made in U.S. silk consumption, Japan last week cut its 1941 silk production quota 20% under 1940, hoped to keep the price well above the current $2.38-a-lb., Government-fixed minimum. This year Du Pont plans to produce 8,000,000 Ib. of nylon at its Seaford, Del. plant, enough to take over 17% to 20% of the U.S. hosiery trade, make a third 'of a million pairs of stockings a day. Late this year, Du Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan...
...other income. The ancient sins of luxury have been increasingly apparent both outside and inside the holy ground. Vigorous young monks are rare. "We need young men today more than ever," one Athonite has said, "but they prefer to fatten their ephemeral bodies and clothe them in silk shirts and ties...
...freight last year between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, would probably be handed over to England, and the freight routed over railroads. Then, under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the President could seize or purchase any U.S. ship, set up priorities under which ships now hauling fruit, silk and luxuries would begin moving the 19,000,000 tons of asbestos, bauxite, copper, cork, manganese, rubber, tin, sisal, nitrates, tungsten, vanadium and other strategic materials the U.S. needs for defense production. Thousands of tons of these materials are piled on foreign docks...
...more remarkable was Navyman Hughes's statement because his Government had just finished welcoming Japan's first Minister to Australia: fastidious, silk-smooth Tatsuo Kawai, a onetime secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Washington. Minister Kawai arrived in Australia last fortnight, promptly began to talk about a trade agreement between Australia and Japan, a new airline connecting the two nations. Japan, said he, had no aggressive intentions against Australia-he believed in a policy of Australia for the Australians, Asia for the Japanese...