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Rationing of woolens for civilians may not be necessary despite the year-long cries of "Wolf! Wolf!" Since the Truman Committee clamored for an inventory of Army textile stocks, the Quartermaster Corps decided last week to clamp a brake on its buying. For four months, beginning September, woolen mills will be permitted to cut their scheduled Army production by as much as 50%. (The Army orders are deferred to the first part...
This temporary reconversion may result in a windfall to civilians of as much as 24 million yards of woolen and worsted fabrics, some of it for pre-winter-rush delivery...
...dressed in one to three sets of long wool underwear, field jacket, parka, sweaters, woolen cap beneath the helmet, two or more pairs of heavy wool socks, shoe pacs or leather boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...
Silk for the Darlings. An American girl who recently escaped from Occupied France to London gave a more authentic account of life under the Germans. She said that women can still buy chic dresses for 5,000 francs and up without ration coupons. Woolen suits, silk nighties and stockings bring fancy black-market prices. But only the darlings of Nazis, grafters, collaborationists can afford such luxuries. The others wear plain, frequently remade suits and dresses, set off by towering upswept hairdos and elaborate hats. Tulle is one of the few unrationed materials and it is used plentifully for hats...
...first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...