Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silk Stocking Parade" and "Film Fun" are the slowest sellers at the Freshman Union news-stand, according to Vincent J. Monti 1G, who runs the stand with Victor E. Gatto...
...city of Kankakee, Ill. (pop. 20,000) was the hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
...overthrow of the shogunate in 1867 and the restoration of power to the Imperial House, the 200-year-old banking house of Mitsui, which had backed the new Emperor Meiji, emerged as the most potent financial force in new Japan. Masuda, now an exporter of rice, tea and silk, joined forces with the Mitsui family in 1876 and launched Mitsui Bussan Kai-sha (Mitsui & Co., Ltd.), the trading firm which became the largest single unit of the vast Mitsui empire...
Last week Mr. Elliott fired a gun big enough to be heard by Franklin Roosevelt. He announced his decision to veto $3,050,000 in loans promised by Farm Security Administration to five cooperatives of Southern subsistence homesteaders to build factories to manufacture silk hosiery on contract for Dexdale Hosiery Mills of Lansdale, Pa. His explanation...
...supposed that such loans were intended by Congress to have some relation to agricultural pursuits or at least to activities of a type usually carried on in rural communities. . . . Subsidizing the manufacture of silk hosiery does not appear to come within such contemplated fields . .. [besides] giving rise to increased competition with cotton, the chief agricultural product of the South." With no high hopes, FSA planned to present "new evidence" to persuade Mr. Elliott that its silk-stocking project is legal...