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...onlookers shake their heads. "It's more like a funeral procession than the beginning of a flight to Paris." As the engine warms up, it is 30 r.p.m. low. The stick wobbles sluggishly in the taxiing run; water and mud spew from the tires, drum on the fabric. Lindbergh, at the head of the runway, opens the throttle. Three times he lifts his plane from the runway, three times touches it back down. The fourth time The Spirit of St. Louis is only 1,000 ft. from a web of telephone wires. Slowly it rises-"5,000 lbs. balanced...
...Force blue uniform material. After World War II, he started experimenting with such new man-made fibers as Dacron and Orion-now Uxbridge is one of the largest users of synthetics in the woolen and worsted field Says President Walter: "Wool will never be replaced as a basic fabric. But the textile industry is taking to synthetics in much the same way as the steel industry took to alloys...
Washington, before retirement to Mount Vernon, sternly squelched suggestions that Americans set up a monarchy with George Washington as its first king, but he wrote to friends that "something must be done or the fabric must fall . . ." His concern was not wasted; his was foremost among the influences which prompted the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which he served as chairman...
...denim revolution was helped along four years ago by Fabric Designer Mary Shannon, fashion stylist for North Carolina's Cone Mills, biggest U.S. maker of denims. She showed that the cloth had unlimited fashion possibilities. The company brought out more than 50 new kinds -stripes, plaids, multicolored combinations. At the 1949 showing, Mrs. Shannon herself appeared in a tailor-made denim dress of her own design, set off delighted murmurs in the trade. By the following year such designers as Brigance and Jane Derby had created rhinestone-studded evening dresses and town clothes of denim. One high-fashion stylist...
...Cleveland held its 35th arts and crafts exhibition, in the city's Museum of Art. There was something for every taste: 1,308 objects by 411 artists and craftsmen, from oils and watercolors to ceramic bowls, pewter boxes, jewelry, lithographs, displays of fabric printing, weaving, furniture. Museumgoers pounced on their favorite exhibits as fiercely as customers at Macy's, fought off rival buyers. Museum staffers estimated that by the time the show closes next week, 120,000 citizens will have visited it, and bought $30,000 worth...