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Show Lois ol" Nylons? Not Until 1917 Abundant supplies of nylon hose will not be available before next year. Reasons for the continuing shortage, short-age, of nylon ho?e are the facts that the country is spending almost al-most exclusively on nylon to fill its needs, as the rayon formerly used f stockings is being used for clotniiig, and there is a lack of both machinery and skilled labor for the making of nylon and nylon hose, according to an article in the' June issue of Cosmopolitan masa-zine masa-zine which is based on an. exhaustive exhaust-ive investigation of the nylon situation. sit-uation. Charges that the nylon hose shortage resulted from hoarding fciy manufacturers who were holding hold-ing them back for higher prices, or that it had been caused by manufacturers shipping them out of the country were found te be absolutely untrue in the investigation. investiga-tion. For the future, the picture is somewhat brighter, according to the article, which states in part: "The entire industry is confident that it will still achieve its goal of thirty million dozen pairs of hose by the end of the year. Also it is confident that in 1947 with du Pont's capacity vastly increased, with a great deal of new machinery on hand and with new skills developed de-veloped in labor the production of stockings can reach a level whi vi will Insure abundant supplies." |