Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
Whoosh! In Vlaardingen, Holland, a chemical worker snitched a likely looking piece of filter cloth (which happened to contain a good deal of guncotton), made himself a pair of pants, then rashly struck a match on them...
...components making up the total cost of finished textiles are raw wool, labor, dye-stuffs, chemicals, machinery and buildings. Since all of these items are much higher in this country than anywhere else in the world, the wool textile industry that converts raw wool into finished cloth also needs protection...
...Washington, members of the National Institute of Diaper Services crowded into the Hotel Statler to witness a demonstration of the Darrah-fold, the newest method of solving the oldest problem of infant care. Their conclusion: the new technique, which applies five thicknesses of cloth where they are most needed, might revolutionize diaper-folding...
Eventually fishermen, vacationers, carabinieri from the village of Albenga and the three crewmen brought in 44 small corpses and three of the women. On a long, banquet-sized table covered with a white cloth in the White Cross aid station, the 44 children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...