Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad station at Pukow, just across the Yangtze from Nanking, was choked with people. Soldiers, bulky in padded winter khaki, bivouacked on the concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
Despite rising costs, woolen fabric makers were talking price cuts; clothing manufacturers, whose goods were not moving well at the present high prices, had cut back orders. Cotton cloth prices were already down; grey (unfinished) goods were back almost to 1946 OPA levels...
Last week in New Delhi's Bhangi colony, where municipal sweepers are lodged and where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, one turbaned Untouchable said: "Thirty years ago, if I entered a shop, I had to stand apart from other customers; if I touched a piece of cloth, I had to buy it. Now I can go anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three...
...Rate. Harry Franks, treasurer of Boston's Richard Clothing Manufacturing Co., noticed that customers always like to test cloth by feeling it. To make this easy to do-and increase sales-he put bolts of cloth in his window, shoved their ends through slits below the window, and provided scissors with which passers-by could snip off samples...
WINE, WOMEN AND WORDS (295 pp.) -Billy Rose-Simon & Schuster ($3 cloth, $1 paper...