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...Basis of Lanital is casein, the thick substance in sour, skimmed milk from which cottage cheese is made. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Dairy Industry applied for a public-service patent on a somewhat similar process for turning casein into synthetic wool...
Inventors of the new synthetic wool are two Government chemists named Stephen P. Gould and Earl O. Whittier. They produced the fiber by a method similar to that used in making rayon from cellulose. The finished product is straw-colored, resembles the best grade, washed and carded Merino wool, but will not shrink so much and is mothproof. By varying the acids used in curdling the milk they claim they can make a soft, silky grade or a hard, stronger type of yarn. Although Messrs. Gould and Whittier do not know exactly what it will cost to produce synthetic wool...
...gave a sweeping pledge to "rationalize" the now almost infinitely complex taxation system of the Soviet Union, announced some progress already made: "We have rationalized in the food industry where, instead of 608 tax rates, we have introduced but 167. We are also revising the taxation system in the wool, cotton and silk industries. But this is not enough. We are fully aware that all of our industrial turnover taxes must be revised in like manner...
...that were flattering but wearable. Declaring that she aimed "to clothe rather than astonish," Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...
...Reassured the wool industry. Dissident factions in the wool trade recently inspired a special Senate committee to investigate speculation and other phases of wool marketing. Last week the committee's chairman, Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, announced that the committee "has no reason to believe present practices are reprehensible...