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...merchants also blame the mid-west contingent for the recent infatuation with "miracle" fabrics such as dacron and orlon. These synthetic materials are softer than the traditional cloths and retain shape and crease indefinitely. The fabrics are found in shirts; ties, socks and almost every other garment, except for underwear which is tartan this year...
...move comes, Harris said, at a time when more and more of the garment industry is moving away from New England. "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts proposes by this route to go out of it way destroy the manufacturing industry of Boston," he said...
Planned renting of the Boston arterial highway through Chinatown and the garment industry area may cost be city $400 million and one-fifth of all the manufacturing jobs in Boston, Seymour E. Harris '20, Professor of Economic, told a television audience Friday night...
Experts have estimated that the route would probably completely wipe out 200 firms in the downtown garment district with gross receipts of $200 million a year...
...elite students who qualify by stringent entrance exams, are educational show places which offer high-level training for aspiring engineers, chemists, biologists, physicians, musicians and artists. Its trade and vocational schools offer a more dazzling variety of study. One whole high school is devoted to instructing would-be garment workers, another turns out printers, another automobile mechanics. A meat merchandising course produces embryo butchers, a catering course trains embryo cooks...