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Nylon hose (made by independent mills from Du Pont synthetic fibre) cost $1.15, $1.25 and $1.35 a pair, according to gauge. One reason Wilmington women like them is because only Wilmington women can buy them. Impressive to the stocking trade, however, is the way nylon has sold out weekly for...
Some branded silk hosiery used to cost only 79?. But almost the only ones at that price now have cotton tops and toes. For no stocking-maker can long sell pure silk hose for 79? if the price of raw silk is much above $2 a pound. Year ago January...
Nature articles of spirituality: statesman articles of imagination. His ancestry Watertown, Mass 1632. Stuart Thereison's Nature articles Last Rose N. Y. Times Dec. 5, 39: Xmas Night Stars N. Y. Sun Jan 5, 1940: "His Naval plan that nearly prevented the World and Jap Wars" accd'g to Navy...
Since the days of Reconstruction and the scandals of the Grant Administration, civil service reform has been a reliable plank in anyone's party platform. The "best people" have embraced it almost as a religion, claiming that it is the solution to every evil in government, while radicals have sneered...
For many years there lingered on the hoary old gentlemen of the Union League Club, who saw in this reform the be-all and end-all of good government. Civil service passed through a period of fetishism, surely, but today it is firmly founded on common sense. It is now...