Uncle Sam to standardize garmet sizes. Washington D.C., July 23. To enable fathers and mothers to order clothes with the confidence that a size 8 or 10, is all its supposed to be in length and breadth, the Bureau of Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is undertaking the leadership of project

Sees that Uncle Sam gets value in purchases. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. Miss Mary L. Rollins is responsible for seeing that the government gets value received for every dollar expended for paper and materials containing textile fibers. As fiber technologist of the National Bureau of Standards, she

Old Bureau ready to do work of proposed economics agency. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. Alexander V. Dye, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, which has had its appropriation reduced to less than half what it was in 1932, today said his Bureau is ready and

County agents meet at Agriculture Dept. Washington, D.C. June 7. County Agricultural Extension Agents from 15 states are meeting in Washington this week to discuss the recent developments and progress in their work with the Dept. of Agriculture Heads. The officers of the National Association of Coun

Wage-Hour Unit prepares to put act into effect. Washington, D.C., Oct. 22. The Wage-Hour Administration rushed work today on last minute explanations of how industry should comply with the most far reaching attempt since the NRA days to put a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours. Wage-hour Adm

Baby Service, Inc." Washington, D.C., Aug. 14. "Enjoy your baby, let us work for him" is the motto of a brand new business just started here by a woman who looks rather like a baby herself, though she has one, the owner of the business is Mrs. John McGee, the former Narcissa Sullivan, daughter of Ma

Uncle Sam's color expert. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. Miss Dorothy Nickerson is one person who can't afford to go color-blind. She is the color analyst of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and measures color as a means of grading and standardizing many agricultural products such as cotton, hay, fru

Color expert for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., June 20. When it was discovered that color plays an important role in marketing of cotton, Miss Dorothy Nickerson, Color Technologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, developed a method for measuring the color of raw cotton mechanically. The equi

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 frui