Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the Italian countryside "on a sightseeing trip," wondering what to do with a 6 ft. by 24 ft. tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...
...Irving's six factories-at Buffalo, N. Y.; at Glendale, Calif.; at Fort Erie, Canada; at Bucharest, Rumania; at Stockholm, Sweden; at Letchworth, England-Irving's 2,000 employes were sewing on silken war orders. Airmen of 45 foreign countries now ride on Irving silk-even the Germans who confiscated an Irving plant and bought its patents three years...
...most practical outfit . . . is first, vest and pantie in fine wool or a mixture of artificial silk and wool...
...first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill was bought, 13 ancient knitting machines were put in shape and Colony Hosiery went into production. At first, without working capital to buy silk, Colony Hosiery took orders only on commission. After eight months in business it now buys its own silk, has advance orders for two years (mostly gathered by President Colony in frequent trips to Manhattan), is working two shifts a day and is paying back its RFC loan...
Your comparison of Winston Churchill to Garner was certainly lacking in imagination [TIME, Aug. 14]. They are about as much alike politically or otherwise as a Lion and a Mule. By standards of culture, background and accomplishment, Churchill is a "Silk Purse" and Garner...