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...Line had diverted all its trans-Pacific passenger traffic to Los Angeles and the Grace Line had eliminated sailings north to Seattle. The steel doors of the 38 docks on San Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero (see map) had not opened for eight weeks to let a bale of silk, a bag of sugar or anything of the $50,000,000 worth of goods they held pass into commerce. When the first door opened last week, out surged something akin...
Last week the New York Commodity Exchange celebrated its first anniversary under one roof. Silk had been dull for more than a year. Hide sales had dropped 47,000,000 lb. Copper, restricted by NRA price controls, had been inactive for months, as had tin, affected by cartels abroad. Trading in silver futures slumped off three weeks ago when the Silver Purchase Act slapped a 50% tax on the profits of silver speculators. Only rubber continued to be active. Last week the Commodity Exchange, casting about for other staples in which its 950 members could do business, established a futures...
Professor Fairhall was doubly confident of his information. He had soaked squares of the silk in body secretions (perspiration, saliva, urine) and in other fluids with which silk garments might touch (distilled water, tap water, salt water). None of the lead in the silk dissolved...
Professor Fairhall had also given leaded-silk underwear and nightgowns to four women whose ages ranged from 17 to 50 years. None of the women showed signs of having absorbed any lead from the silk, after six weeks of work, wear and wash...
Miss Kessinger, who doubted Professor Fairhall's results, made some little sacks of leaded silk. Into each sack she tied a rat and kept it there with only its head exposed for an hour a day. At first she perceived no changes. Then rapidly the rats' skins became irritated. One rat died. And Miss Kessinger became bold enough to question the professor's dictum...