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When Dr. Van Hoosen opened the woolen uterus and lifted out the "baby," the women all stood up and clapped...
...last year) in the U. S., last week wondered about Japan's $658,000 market in the rest of this hemisphere, wondered if they might have to expand to supply it. Last week U. S. clothing manufacturers, fearful that the good-neighbor policy might divert rayon, woolen & cotton textiles to Latin America, began to clamor for speedier delivery from the overworked mills...
...industries are already overworked. Can they continue to fill Defense and consumer needs simultaneously? One narrowing bottleneck is pig iron (TIME, Sept. 23) which Detroit needs for its iron foundries. Another is the foundries themselves, which are being rushed with Defense orders. Still another is the rundown old cotton & woolen textile industry, a large auto supplier which is getting huge orders from Army & Navy. (Already Washington is quietly discouraging Detroit from ordering its wool too far in advance.) Another, vital to makers of accessories, is the zinc industry, for which business is too good for comfort. Zincmen like to sell...
...Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have called a Golden Age. The Spaniards brought with them horses (but used the Indians as men of burden), wheat (the Indians still eat maize tortillas), such things as woolen blankets, armchairs, caps (for which the Indians exchanged jewels, silver, gold). The only things the Spaniards gave the Indians were smallpox, influenza and tuberculosis...
Textiles. For its growing family of soldiers, the U. S. Army began buying fabrics for uniforms. Lame old American Woolen Co. and other smaller weavers got orders for some 13,000,000 yd. of serge, overcoatings, shirtings, odds & ends. Cotton mills got orders for 930,000 yd. of khaki cotton cloth. Also placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy...