Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doubts and Headlines. Last year the U.S. produced 11.25 billion yd. of cotton fabrics - an alltime high that kept U.S. looms at practical capacity. But consumption was enormous too: the nation went into 1943 with retail stocks of fabricated cotton (2.96 billion yd.) barely equal to the year before. Government men still bravely insist that this year's production will be at least as high as 1942's, but the trade demurs: manpower is cruelly scarce, irreplaceable equipment is wearing out. Costs are up drastically and prices (except at the raw level) are fixed. None of this encourages...
...trade also doubts soothing state ments from the Army & Navy that their need for cotton textiles will be no greater than the 4.7 billion yd. - 35% of production - that they and Lend-Lease took last year. Last week's headlines were black with news of new orders for soldiers & sailors (who wear out clothes even faster in foreign service), new Lend-Lease de mands and new buying for the Office of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation...
...textile industry's estimates of 1943 needs for all these essentials, run up to 9 billion yd. That would leave U.S. civilians only about five billion yd. (v. a civilian 8.9 billion yd. last year). Even this esti mate includes the entire carryover, assumes that production stays at peak besides...
That was a U.S. swimming milestone. But the chief thrill at last week's meet was a duel between two youngsters vying for the title of America's greatest freestyle sprinter-Yale's 19-year-old Alan Ford, who recently broke the world's 100-yd. free-style record, and Ohio State's 18-year-old Bill Smith Jr. At meet's end the question of who was greatest was not conclusively answered. Smith beat Ford easily in the 220; Ford beat Smith easily in the 100, neither in world-record time. But there...
Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...