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Show POLICE SUFFER FROM NATION NYLON SHORTAGE Nylon queues were becoming one of the nation's chief police problems this week as shortages continued to find women lining up across the nation and officials in one city had declared the whole question an outright "nuisance." From Manhattan to San Francisco Fran-cisco police were being detailed to the constant problem of watching watch-ing block-Ions' stocking lines., but -o "O o 1 in Washington, where a recent shopper's rush had resulted in the mobbing of one store, the law had at least expressed itself in terms of annoyance. "This is just a plain, ordinary nuisance," one police official said after surveying a line extending for two blocks from the Golden Dawn hosiery shop to F street. "I know there's a stocking shortage. My wife tells me about it. But I can't understand these storekeepers, selling 200 pairs at a time." Queueing-up, meanwhile, had extended to the point in Baltimore where one vocational school had released girl students so that they could join the line and have a chance at something else beside "bobby socks." Miss Edna Engle, principal of the Clara Barton Vocational High School, had turned her girls loose on the premise that her job is to produce "young business women, not bobby-soxers." Because bobby bob-by socks have (been the only recourse re-course at school, Miss Engle herself her-self announced an impending sale and told her girls to "go out and get them." |