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...Iowa City (pop. 16,000), where she rooms with a private family, Miss Margaret Campbell got up at 5:45 (it was still dark) one morning last week When she was dressed, in a neat blue silk blouse and a blue wool skirt, she went outdoors to start her 1933 Ford coupe and her day. Miss Campbell, 26, teaches school in a typical one-room country schoolhouse. In such schools, 2,500,000 U. S. children get their education...
...textile fibers take time to demonstrate which parts of the mammoth fiber market properly belong to them. Unlike Du Pont's nylon, which is mostly aimed at silk hosiery trade, Vinyon appears to be aimed at more varied markets...
Best-beloved of guests were Osa and the late Martin Johnson. Osa was utterly fearless not only of animals but of the fragilities of Government House protocol, stood in the middle of the G. H. drawing room in a "zebra-striped silk dress . . . and brayed like a zebra, and everybody liked...
...Japanese explained that the price rise could not be avoided. Fearing a domestic inflation, Japanese people were hoarding silk. Furthermore the 1938 cocoon crop was very small. Trans-Pacific shipping costs had risen since the War started. Total stocks of silk on hand in Japan were estimated to be very low. Besides which the Japanese, to conserve foreign exchange, were buying garments of native silk, instead of imported cotton or rayon made from imported wood pulp...
...Recent figures show that though visible (about-to-be-shipped) silk stocks in Japan are the smallest in years, speculators are holding thousands of pounds in the interior. And the Japanese Government, which strictly forbids speculation in other commodities, does not mind in this case. > Textile-statisticians last spring observed that there was a discrepancy in Japanese silk statistics. The Japanese said that domestic consumption of silk goods was sharply up, they said elsewhere that production of silk fabrics was declining instead of increasing. Last week this discrepancy no longer existed. Reason: the Japanese had given up publishing statistics...