Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought on by Viet Nam war requirements, the textile industry has come a long way since the all-too-recent years when it languished under lethargic management in inefficient New England plants. Little more than a decade ago, J. P. Stevens & Co., the U.S.'s second largest textile-fabric maker, did not produce a single consumer end product; now it makes dozens, including sheets, towels, blankets, stockings and draperies. The industry also has prospered as a result of imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with...
...Fabric of Corruption...
...monopoly of government jobs. In many countries in both Africa and Asia, every job from minister down to doorman is considered a sinecure to be purchased. Corruption is so much a companion of nationhood in some countries that it has become an integral part of the fabric of government. When the army took over in Nigeria in January, they found that Finance Minister Okotie-Eboh had arbitrarily raised tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory, and for a price was willing to do the same for others. One Laotian general on a salary of $250 a month supported...
...official conferred with his superior; then someone blew a trumpet. The water throwers began dousing the seated students. Umbrellas popped open--but the high-pressure streams shredded the fabric and twisted the spidery metal ribs...
...Miami, "and it gives every sign of being one of the most lurid and bloodstained among latter-day criminal cases. Whichever way the murder trial goes, it is all mixed up with big money and wheeler-dealerism." Added the Houston Chronicle's man in Miami: "Woven through the fabric of the case are the threads of love, hate, greed, savage passion, intrigue, incest and perversion...