REPORT CHALLENGED
TESTS OF FIBRE FABRICS WOOL VALUE EMPHASISED (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21. An Army report lists the results of many tests of a mixture of fibre fabrics for use in certain garments, and asserts that wool fabrics containing certain percentages of rayon and cotton content are superior in some cases to all-wool cloths. The executive director of the American Wool Council, Mr F. A. Ackerman, challenges this statement, saying that it looks like the complete abandonment of every previous official and public utterance by the Army quartermastering authorities who conducted the most extensive mass tests in history to determine the best uniform for soldiers and sailors. These had declared that the advantages of wool fibre and been adequately demonstrated not only in the controlled tests, but, more important, in actual campaign use. Mr Ackerman recalled that one authority said it was the presence of foreign fibres in wool uniforms during the German campaign in Russia which caused more deaths than Russian bullets.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26290, 23 October 1946, Page 8
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