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*i550eeeea;teiseITaa1-»-itCbtemr-\oigISninatic■it.Tienn*ch;e-aenheIn-♦iu-AlAT FILM PBEVUEIf FrDeclare Women’s Main Worry Is Why Jumping Outfits Can’t Be Made Out of CottonATLANTA, Ga.. Aug. 13 — (UP) — Nine of the army’s best looking . parachutists are on temporary assignment in a theatre lobby here and to hear them talk you’d think that women are only interested in why chutes can’t be made of cotton instead of silk.The nine jumpers are the advance guard of 500 more of the 501st parachute battalion coming into the city from Fort Ben-ning tomorrow to see the world premiere of the motion picture •‘Parachute Battalion.” Many of the scenes In the picture were shot at Fort Benmng.The army “loaned” the nine parachutists to RKO productions for advance publicity on the picture and they have been demonstrating in the lobby the proper way to fold parachutes.One Out Of FivePrivate Wilbur Troyer of Oklahoma City, Okla., said that about one out of every five women looking over the demonstration put this question:“Why can't you use cotton to make those things?”According to Trover the feminine questioners walk away apparently unconvinced that cotton is too bulky for parachutes.Generally the women wistfully and accusingly rub the parachute fabric and make such remarks as—“How many silk stockings can you get into one parachute?”“Is that really silk?”“So that’s where my stockings go'.BYFre hasn’ xious ment conte but : move in ten tenth the \ Cei milit; in th ernTr new lishc Th cern icas give gic IFren ricfe, ing I cial the ) Th upor Th 'Wes nizei ed 5 air-t Naz: zil f pros mile the Tl Gen in C fore baslt;is o long thal of i er whi T this littl mirimpof t
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Jefferson City Post Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Wed, Aug 13, 1941
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