Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love life of the silkworm had become a matter of grave national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...
...kiss and make up. Two Chinese strains had produced a promising cocoon called "Airplane No. 1" (developed for wartime parachutes but never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling to recognize the vital international issues at stake. With 30% to 60% of a job done, he would quit...
...Japs were counting on three new hybrid super-worms, all developed this year, to produce 20% of next year's silk. Most successful love match has been between a male moth called "Tranquillity" and a female called "Long Security." After three to five hours of blissful embrace last week, Long Security produced 500-600 eggs. Her partner's ardor was then cooled by a night in a refrigeration room. Refreshed, he was introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground...
...shoulders, drape themselves in extravagant yards of rich cloth and go out on the town festooned with about every feminine furbelow short of a bone in the nose. The fabric restrictions, the drab colors and tailored lines of wartime were out. An opulent era of furs, jewels, lame, rustling silk and bouncing bustles, of feathers, tassels, braid and decontrolled nudity was here...
Everyone agrees that the Scarlet were the smartest, best-coached outfit to visit the Stadium since 1942, and from a purely esthetic point of view, their alert backing-up and silk-smooth offensive machinations were delightful to behold. And throughout the nation this year, past season records, the size of undergraduate bodies, and batteries of press agents don't mean too much, for only eleven men are allowed to play at one time...