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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture used on mosquito netting is mixed by a worker in a large Eastern mill which formerly made women's stockings. This chemical solution stiffens the netting and prevents subsequent shrinkage, so that the hardest tropical downpour which A
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Credit lineConversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture used on mosquito netting is mixed by a worker in a large Eastern mill which formerly made women's stockings. This chemical solution s. 1942-01-01. Gruber, Edward, United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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