Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Universal & Permanent. Eli Whitney, an 18th Century Massachusetts Yankee, went broke after his cotton gin invention was widely pirated, and turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
Down at the Club. Until Nellie Donnelly came along, most cheap cotton dresses were dowdy calico prints, which housewives wrapped around themselves like sacks. Nellie designed her own prints for manufacturers to make, trained her seamstresses to turn them into neat, form-fitting styles...
Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. is the biggest U.S. maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed...
...weaving and finishing, cotton cloth stretches as much as 5 to 10%, shrinks back when it is washed. Sanford Cluett's process shrinks it without washing, by passing it through a machine that compresses the fibers...
Mail Call. In Eloy, Ariz., when assured that there was no mail for him, Cotton-Picker Earl Neal shot it out with Postmaster J. C. Garrett; both were killed...