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Surplus Silk. U.S.C.C. has already badly snarled Japan's exports of raw silk by paying no attention to the fickle taste of U.S. women. After five silkless years, they had learned to like Nylon better than silk in stockings, slips and girdles. Nor did U.S.C.C. mind its economic law. The first silk shipments sold at an average of $9.79 a pound. But as more silk came into the U.S. the auction price skidded until it hit $4.70 last February. Manufacturers who had been caught in the falling market stopped buying. To protect them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Back in Business | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Naming Yale as "the best dressed girls' college in the country," but claiming that shoulderstrapless evening dresses were not designed for the modern automobile, Miss Dorothy Lord, internationally famous style expert, last night launched a move to glorify the 1939 Radcliffe girl, in a silkless style show...

Author: By Charles L. Bigelow and Spencer Klaw, S | Title: Yale Men Best Gowned, States Dorothy Lord, Famous Stylist | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

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