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Robert Roy Nathan, a whizbang young (33) economist from OPM's statistics division. Tall (6 ft. 1 1/2 in.), husky (some 200 lb.), black-haired Bob Nathan worked his way through University of Pennsylvania as a tutor, reporter, Real Silk stocking salesman, got into defense work via the Department...
Despite longtime experiments by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, hosiery stylists never cottoned to cotton either. No modern stocking machine exists that can make acceptable full-fashioned cotton hosiery except from long-staple cotton, which grows only in small quantities in the U.S.
In business: no more pencil erasers, typewriter erasers, rubber bands (the U.S. uses some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber...
Bulge. In Rochester, N.Y., when a woman complained she had been robbed, a policeman thought he saw her money bulging her stocking, told her so. She explained: "Them's my teeth."
The dealers have been taking the advice. Their patriotic indifference to factory sales quotas is one reason October sales were 39% below last year. But they have been stocking new cars so fast that their inventories are over 300,000 units, a new high for the season. They did this...