Word: fabrications
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dyke silk is grown at Lullingstone Castle, Kent, rushed to Macclesfield (neckties) to be "thrown" (twisted for proper thread thickness), then to Braintree to be boiled and dyed the correct shade of imperial purple. The fabric is woven on medieval looms by an enthusiastic, slim-fingered girl named Lily Lee, at the rate of three yards per week. By last week Lily Lee had woven 42 yards, one yard more than enough for the three royal robes...
...shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories of General Electric and Westinghouse buy rare minerals. Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate...
Trusts in all their variations are woven into the whole fabric of Boston life. A Bostonian who is not either a beneficiary or trustee of at least one personal trust fund is liable to find himself at a distinct social disadvantage. Boston is the home of the oldest investment trust in the U. S.-Boston Personal Property Trust, founded in 1893. Boston is also the home of the open-end or mutual general management trust, which is usually called the "Boston-type trust...
...mask, seen "bandit-artists" being led off to jail because their pictures ran counter to government decrees, been offered a Chinese virgin for $17, his desire to learn more about the Chinese revolutionists left him. Day after day he thought he could see the social fabric wearing away, and "at moments it seemed that anyone, almost anyone, could have led these people...
...bait intended to lure moths away from clothing has been put on the market by a Wisconsin manufacturer. Called "Moth Wool," it consists of a package of blue woolen fabric, contains a chemical which kills the eggs laid in it, costs 95?. What the secret of its attraction is the maker refuses to reveal...