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This became apparent last week in Manhattan, whither had swarmed retail-clothes buyers from 48 States to see the first collection of fashions wholly controlled by war needs. WPB, fashion's new dictator, had shaken clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
With the only refrigerated wind tunnel and the biggest low-pressure chamber in the U.S. aviation industry, Airesearch Co. of Inglewood, Calif. is developing equipment to send planes toward the stratosphere, whither the air battles of World War II are rapidly climbing. The refrigerated wind tunnel, an enormous doughnut 25 feet across, made of tubing three feet in diameter, contains a 300-m.p.h. wind that blows at temperatures down to -90° Fahrenheit...
Said Marion Davies one day last week: "Gosh, I'm getting so fed up with Pop spending the whole time talking politics." It was politics that had brought William Randolph Hearst, 78, from San Simeon to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, whither he summoned his editors and publishers to discuss war policy. Springy of step, looking fitter than he had in years, the old publisher seemed to his admiring Hearstlings well nigh indestructible...
...brain-trusters decided to clean up U.S. bowling alleys. Adopting the adage "Whither woman goeth, man will follow," they asked bowling-alley operators to throw out their spittoons, install soda fountains, easy chairs, pretty powder rooms-even nurseries with free nursemaid service, if necessary, to get women bowling. They got Hollywood to produce bowling shorts, hired bowling wizards like New York's Joe Falcaro, St. Louis' Lowell Jackson, San Francisco's Ora Mayer to give lessons in their respective communities. With sales talk like "Try Bowling for Stomach Fag," "Appendicitis Never Gets Bowlers," and "Movie Stars Bowl...
...Whither Collaboration? German-Japanese collaboration will undoubtedly go far beyond anything Tomoyuki Yamashita himself can command. Eventually it may involve a synchronized German-Japanese squeeze on India. It may, sooner than that, involve a squeeze on Russia...