Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude, when six Harvard athletes picked the color which for them represented the tone of their alma mater. The occasion was the Boston City Regatta, at which Harvard deemed it necessary to have some distinctive mark. So the boat club rowing for Cambridge appeared on the Charles with China silk handkerchiefs of bright crimson tied about their heads. And, blessed with...
...Evie gave up her usual afternoon activities to stand with White House newshounds outside the office of her friend Franklin Roosevelt. When the door opened she tumbled inside first ahead of the pack, and handed the President of the United States a big red apple wrapped in a white silk ribbon. "Is it a McIntosh?" smiled Mr. Roosevelt. "No, I'm sorry-it's a sheep's nose," trilled Evie. "We'll have to try them in Dutchess County," remarked Squire Roosevelt, still smiling, and turned to the business of his press conference...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. fortnight ago announced it would erect a new textile plant and begin commercial production of Fibre 66, regarded by chemists as the first satisfactory substitute for silk in hosiery. Last week Celanese Corp. of America, third largest U. S. rayon manufacturer,* approved construction of a $10,000,000 factory near Pearisburg, Va. where it too will produce a new synthetic silk fibre. This unnamed yarn, said company officials, can be used for various textile products, does not correspond with Fibre 66. But the trade saw in the announcement a second sign that the Japanese silkworm soon...
...month ago when the U.S. granted E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. a patent on a new product known as Fibre 66, which apparently has the elasticity rayon has always lacked (TIME, Oct. 3), chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...