Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 8, under People you noted that General Motors' president had presented Princess Ingrid of Denmark with a pair of synthetic silk stockings. Since the Japanese sacked Nanking in 1937, I have worn no silk at all-and the substituted lisle & rayon hosiery are hateful to me. Those synthetic silk stockings sound like the answer to a maiden's prayer. Are they on the market as yet? If so, where, please? If not-who is making them? Surely not General Motors? Whoever is making them can probably use another experimenter to test their wearability...
...Pont's synthetic silk, said to have the elasticity that rayon lacks, is a synthesis of coal, air and water called Nylon, or Fibre 66. Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. Celanese Corp. of America is also working on a synthetic silk fibre, as yet unnamed...
...Duce Mussolini would have organized the religious services which Catholic Caudillo Franco held next day in the little suburban Church of Santa Barbara. A choir of monks chanted age-old antiphons; 10,000 palms were strewn on the church steps; El Caudillo walked into the church under a white silk canopy held up by six priests. Before the high altar on which was placed a crucifix commemorating the great Hispano-Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in the 16th Century, the General surrendered his sword to Isidoro Cardinal Goma y Tomás, Catholic Primate of Spain, gave thanks...
Promising less, the Second Five-Year Plan visualized more modest gains: 178 new coal mines, 107 rolling mills, 93 oil cracking plants, 15 cotton mills, 21 shoe factories, eleven silk mills, along with a big extension of rolling stock, locomotives, tractors, power plants. Although it called for an 18.5% increase in consumer goods, ration cards were not abolished until 1935. Production of automobiles and trucks, in a country which has only 600,000, climbed slowly from 49,750 in 1933, to 199,315 in 1937. Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined...
Modish, elfin-faced Eve Curie sued E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for $50,000 damages. Her plaint: Not only had a Du Pont ad used an unauthorized photograph of her well-turned legs, but the ad conveyed the false impression that she wore Nylon (a Du Pont silk substitute...