Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cloth shrinks because its fibres have been stretched taut during weaving and finishing, and under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter dimensions. This phenomenon has pained no one so much as the shirt-wearing male -that is, until 1928. That year Sanford Lockwood Cluett of Cluett, Peabody & Co. invented Sanforizing-a mechanical method of preshrinking cloth back to its true dimensions. No wearer of even a $2 shirt now need tug apoplectically to button his collar after it has been washed...
...brief, Sanforizing consists of heating and running a bolt of cloth over an elastic blanket, which contracts and pulls the moistened cloth back to proper length, and makes it stay that way. Cluett, Peabody has an exclusive patent on the process, not only uses it itself but collects royalties ranging from ¼ ?to 1? a yard from 63 U. S. cotton mills producing 60% of U. S. cotton goods. Last week Cluett, Peabody announced that cotton goods Sanforized in 1937 totaled 425,000,000 yds., against 352,000,000 in 1936, 238,000,000 in 1937. Royalties amounted...
...vertical tail fins and rudders attached to a wide horizontal stabilizer-is designed to increase controllability and stability in flight. Savoia-Marchetti, Sikorsky. Consolidated, Handley Page. Mitsubishi all have models with similar twin tails. Knowing that if "flutter"-vibration so violent that it shakes metal like a piece of cloth -developed anywhere it would be in the tail structure, Lockheed engineers and Chief Test Pilot Marshall Headle worked for months to eliminate the possibility, finally satisfied themselves and the B. A. C. that they...
...piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...