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...painting. Most $5 customers buy reproductions. Many an artist would like to develop a cheap medium that would be as popular as reproductions. For the past five years, Artist Anthony Velonis has been at work in Manhattan on such a project. Its name: serigraphy, or, less flossily, silk-screen printing. Since last spring several U. S. museums have put silk-screen prints on view. Last week Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries opened the best show...
...retail trade has been not so much German bombs as the result of British efforts to convert certain industries to war use and to export the largest possible quantity of goods. Dec. i was set as the deadline after which British retailers will be able to get no more silk stockings from British wholesalers. Result: this week every silk-lingerie counter in London was the scene of wild scrambles. Some shops set the limit at one dozen pairs to a customer...
...represented a woman's abdomen. Inside, homemade in pink and red, were models of all the organs involved in childbirth. The pelvic cavity was an oval fruit basket. The walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached...
...scrap moved out of the U. S.-Asiatic limelight, many a more innocent-looking export and import commodity moved into it more & more: cotton, textiles, rubber, tin, lumber and pulp, drugs, toys, machinery, pepper, hides, wool, silk. Businessmen in these lines had reason to ponder the course of Washington-Tokyo diplomacy. For if the U. S. went to war with Japan, an enormous two-way trade across the Pacific would...
Imports. U. S. importers from Japan were less complacent about last week's crisis. Most fearful were silk and hosiery mills. Their $100,000,000-a-year purchases from Japan survived the silk-stocking boycott of 1938 without a qualm. But the possibility of war was something else. For three weeks the mills have been laying in all the silk they could get. Last week they pushed the price (for future delivery) up 22? to $2.82½ a lb. U. S. Silk Importer Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk...