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...women go where the bulldozers have not gone and the trucks cannot go. They carry their burdens on their backs, holding them with thin, woven bamboo head straps. Each woman takes up to 50 pounds, one-fourth the load saddled on pack horses on the same trails. But there are six times as many Igorot women available as pack horses...
...Walter Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute: stainless steel stockings for women. They are still only a laboratory curiosity, but major steel producers, taking the project seriously, have made stainless steel threads which they say can be woven into steel stockings as sheer as silk or nylon...
...familiar Chopin waltzes, preludes, and nocturnes, together with some of the less well-worn pieces--nearly two dozen works in all--are woven into the story of a man torn between love for a woman and love for country; and all are brilliantly played by Jose Iturhi...
...clothing and wait until midsummer, they might save themselves close to a billion dollars a year. Reason: prices will be lower. Last week, WPB and OPA finally decided to snap a checkrein on runaway textile prices. Shoppers agreed that it was high time. Since 1939 the volume of woven fabrics available to civilians had decreased 20%, but the nation's clothing bill had zoomed skyward from 1939's $5.8 billion to $11.4 billion last year...
...latter's analysis of four Jamesian novels in his book, "The Major Phase." In the light of Time magazine's recent, generally accepted comment ("James' stories are meant for slow reading. A little of them goes a long way. Condensed, mellow, with their felicitous phrases and generous perceptions woven unobtrusively into the slow, deliberate prose, they have a flavor that no other fiction possesses."), considerable interest has focussed on the ability of James and of the current producers to meet the drama's demands of immediate, direct response...