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...this, thought local men, was too much money for women to handle. After 1921 they began to take over the industry. One of the first was a young Georgian named Burl ("Chickenhawk'') Judson Bandy, now a 52-year-old, bullet-headed bedspread tycoon who flies his own cabin plane. When Real Silk bought out a Dalton hosiery mill, the displaced executives scraped together $13,000, started a spread house called Cabin Crafts Co. which now does the industry's largest single business - about $1,000,000 a year. These men brought professional designers into the industry...
...competitors and winner of the men's divisions: John Miller, of California, who took time off from punching cows to win a three-day trip to New York City by plane. He crocheted a bedspread...
...made it clear to the family that just because I had a phone, they needn't think they had to call me every night. Also I rejected the idea of their sending up a bedspread, because I haven't seen one on my roommate's bed, nor on the beds of the fellows across the hall. College men just don't use those things; the family will have to realize that...
...teach people to live in a space 7 ft. by 7 ft. the only U. S. licensed School of Trailer Economics accompanies the show. From a swank chocolate-colored trailer Captain Jose L. Misfud lectured to trailees on trailer commissary and linen, clothing and bedspread supply, oil and gasoline oven operation, trailer heating and sanitation...
...compensation, but there were several incidents that caused him, frayed as he was, to speak sharply to Mrs. Coolidge. She was glad when he made up his mind ("I do not choose . . ." etc.) about a question on which she had stitched her opinion six months earlier, in the famed bedspread inscribed: "Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865" "Calvin Coolidge...