Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canvas used in combat boots totaled $200 million in the last quarter of 1965, rose to $260 million in the first quarter of this year, and are expected to go up to $340 million in the second quarter. Since December, the Defense Department has been issuing priority orders for cotton fatigues and wool uniforms, thereby diverting by decree the manufacture of equivalent items away from the U.S. consumer market. As a result, textile mills are working three shifts a day, six days a week, to fill a backlog of orders that, at many plants, should keep the looms humming through...
Pressing Problems. Amid all this prosperity and progress, the textile makers do have their troubles. Imports have almost quadrupled in the last decade, as foreign producers, with lower wage costs, have undercut American prices in cotton, wool, and synthetic fabrics. To keep their own wage costs down, U.S. textile firms have built nearly all their new plants in the Southeast and have vigorously opposed union attempts to organize them. Only a couple of weeks ago, the National Labor Relations Board, in an unusually strong order, ruled J. P. Stevens guilty of "flagrant" violation of federal labor laws, accused the firm...
...industry's most pressing problem, happily enough, is expanding its now threadbare capacity to make the most of the U.S.'s rifles-plus-ruffles spending. Springs Cotton Mills (estimated 1965 sales: $250 million) has four new plants under construction, and last week J. P. Stevens started work on a $10 million synthetics factory and a $7,000,000 glass-fiber-weaving facility in South Carolina. All told, the textile makers will spend more than $1 billion on new and expanded plants this year-as much as the total invested in the last four years...
...concern was shared by Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana, who observed that "murder by motor at home is just as deadly as murder by mortar in Viet Nam." New Hampshire's Norris Cotton objected that the Government "now spends almost as much on the safety of ducks as it does on the traffic safety needs of 190 million people." To prove its resolve, the Senate Commerce Committee approved a measure establishing federal standards for tires...
...Percy Foreman, 64, is probably the biggest, brashest, brightest criminal lawyer in the U.S. The 250-lb. son of a onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they...