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Freezing of Japan's credits may popularize cotton stockings for milady. Washington, D.C., July 26. It appears that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's efforts to improve cotton stockings and thereby popularize the wearing of them as a means of disposing of surplus long-staple cotton, will bear fruit now that Japan's assets have been frozen in the U.S. Japan furnishes most of the silk used in the stockings manufactured in this country and at the present time, according to reports, there is only about two and a half month's supply left. Trade between the U.S. and Japan no doubt will be hard hit because of the difficulty of making payments. Nylon production is also slow so the ladies will probably be wearing cotton stockings by the end of the year or else go barelegged. In this picture, David H. Young, Agriculture Department fabric technician, is shown examining one of the cotton stockings which they are trying to popularize

Freezing of Japan's credits may popularize cotton stockings for milady...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for preparing nylon threads for the making of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. This is one of the largest machines of highest speed in the country. It carries one thousand spools of nylon in its rack

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for prepari...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rig...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for preparing nylon threads for the making of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. This is one of the largest machines of highest speed in the country. It carries one thousand spools of nylon in its rack

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for prepari...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The quilling operation, early in the making of parachute cloth, consists of winding the fine nylon thread from spools onto small quills. The threads will later be woven into the parachute cloth

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The quilling operation, early...

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"Here's where your parachute came from," Deena Clark, civilian defense volunteer tells Technical Sergeant Leo Matkins of the Army Air Corps. The worn out nylon stockings in this barrel full of salvaged stockings will be reprocessed and made into parachutes for army fliers, tow ropes for glider planes and other war material. The worn out silk stockings return to service as powder bags for the Army's big guns. The collection is typical of the thousands of salvage stations in retail stores throughout the country, which have collected 626,127 pounds of old silk and nylon stockings in three months. The campaign is directed by local salvage committees

"Here's where your parachute came from," Deena Clark, civilian defense...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use in the manufacture of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. A close-up of the warping machine, showing how the spools of nylon are supported

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use in the making of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. This picture shows the threads coming from the nylon spools to the warping machine. The number of threads is 1,000. When one thread breaks, an electric switch stops the operation of all the machines. This woman, of German descent, has a son in the U.S. Army

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use in the manufacture of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. A close-up of the warping machine, showing how the spools of nylon are supported

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More