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...both paint solutions and water, is a sort of cross between casein and bakelite. Uses: buttons, laminated boards, high-speed printing ink ingredient, waterproof and oilproof varnish for paper. Mazein got into commercial production six months ago. Last fortnight for the first time it was spun into fibres, resembling wool fibres, which have not yet been fully tested...
...Local 106, in which many Harvard kitchen workers are enrolled, stated positively that Mr. Westcott is known as a shrewd buyer. To check more specifically on the lowness of the prices paid by Mr. Westcott, the Committee contacted Mr. Rose, an executive of the New England Dressed Meat and Wool Company Plant. On examining a list of prices which Harvard paid for meat on a given day, Mr. Rose pointed out that for the most part these prices ran one or two cents below the market wholesale price for that day. Although he did not know Mr. Westcott...
...alarums in Turkey and the Caucasus were not so loud as events in Rumania. There the Government of King Carol, bowing before Allied pressure which took the form of shutting off supplies of cotton, wool, jute, aluminum and iron from Rumanian factories, not only assured the British Government that Rumania's exports of oil to Germany would not exceed 130,000 tons per month, but embargoed all aviation fuel and lubricants from leaving the country. With Dr. Karl Clodius, economic field marshal for Adolf Hitler, due back in Bucharest this week for a final showdown on Rumanian oil, this...
...M.P.s took this with loud cheer and a grain of salt. Minister Cross cited acute German shortages: petroleum, iron, cotton, copper, wool, oils, fats. He reminded the House that there was in Germany an "abnormal desire to convert currency into goods from 'fear of future inflation. . . . Important steel works may have to suspend operations for lack of raw materials. Many factories making rubber are closing for lack of raw materials and others are working below capacity. There is a shortage of accessories. . . . The textile situation is acute...
...kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist that the kilt is more healthful for Scots than trousers because they are accustomed to a warm wrapping for the abdomen...