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...Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master W. W. B. Scott of the Broadway Hunt in the Cotswolds. Five other Scott couples are with the Vic-Mead Hunt in Wilmington...
...Wilmington, Del., one day last week, went a handful of the 10,000-odd stockholders of Aviation and Transportation Corp. Gathered in its boardroom in the Corporation Guarantee & Trust Co., they helped elect three new directors (one of them bristle-maned ex-Champ Gene Tunney), asked a few questions, went their ways. Question none of them thought to ask was one that has been kicked around in the flying business like a sandlot soccer ball : what is ATCO going to do about simplifying its corporate structure...
Every Wednesday morning in Wilmington (Del.), home town of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., a score-odd lingerie shops and department stores put on sale new shipments of nylon stockings. As soon as the doors are open Wilmington women rush in like so many hens at feed time. And though each customer must tell her name, give a Wilmington address, and buy no more than three pairs, nightfall finds few pairs of nylon hose left on store shelves anywhere in Wilmington...
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 four months, even though good pure silk branded stockings can be had in Wilmington for only $1 a pair...
...women's full-fashioned hose knitted in the U. S. And soon abuilding will be extensions to increase this capacity. In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose. If nylon sells nationally as well as it sells in Wilmington, Japan stands to lose something like $10,000,000 of her purchasing power in the U. S. Japan's sales to the U. S. in 1939's first eleven months were $142,280,250, of which some 65% was silk...