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...Francisco Chamber of Commerce's president, dark, mustachioed Marshall Dill, and young, Hollywood-handsome Vice President William Monahan, who replaced last year's silk-hatted management, promised a businesslike show this year...
...that their chances of getting much of the synthetic yarn were slim. For the big Du Pont plant at Seaford, Del. can turn out in the next twelve months only enough yarn for about 5,000,000 dozen pairs of nylon stockings-10% of the annual women's silk hose demand. A second plant, now building, will not swing into full production for a year. Discouraging, too, to hosiery makers was the possibility of nylon's becoming a war material. Last week the U. S. Army was testing the yarn for use in making parachutes, powder bags...
...Wandering Lake. In 1933 Sweden's famed Explorer Sven Hedin was hired by the Chinese Government to explore the Silk Road, ancient caravan route of Marco Polo fame. Purpose: to build a motor highway connecting Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) with Soviet Russia. (Completed in 1938, this 2,000-mile highway soon became one of China's two last links with the outside world.) The Wandering Lake is Sven Hedin's third book to result from that 1933-35 expedition (others: The Flight of the Big Horse, The Silk Road...
...Harvard man it might be enough to "picture" a man in his B.V.D.'s, and let it go at that. Decorum would be preserved, except in the mind of one timid fellow, busy with his visions, wondering whether that blustering professor facing him prefers red flannels or striped silk, front or back buttons. Perhaps a nervous giggle, an appraising glance over the rim of his highball glass, and it would all be over. Conversation would again flow unchecked. It is a beautiful equilibrium of forces, but, lacking indifference, it would almost certainly topple. Before the elbow had bent many more...
...bother about the silk hat, but under no circumstances get caught with your baton down," is the advice to his corps of assistants of Paul M. Hollister '13, Marshal for Harvard Day at the World's Fair tomorrow...