Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to help themselves, textile men are stepping up their switch to synthetics, spent $620 million on new plant and gear last year-up more than 100% since the low year of 1958. Among the many research projects, 150-year-old J.P. Stevens & Co. is working with papermakers to develop disposable clothing, and Deering-Milliken is reportedly experimenting with a process to manufacture textiles by pressing bits of fiber together instead of weaving them. But the industry cannot prosper as it should until some sense is brought into the pricing of its raw materials, which account...
...platoon their crews, and the alternate "Gold Crew" was now at New London, Conn. For Polaris crewmen a patrol starts with a change into a special navy-blue Dacron and cotton coverall. The coverall reduces lint in the closed environment, has no cuffs or belts to get tangled in gear. "But," complains one officer, "it's next to impossible to go to the head in this outfit without dunking part...
...AUTOMATION. The publishers agreed in principle to share with the printers part of the savings they will effect by introducing automatic typesetting equipment for stock market tables. The publishers thus established their right to bring more automated gear into their shops, and the printers reluctantly agreed that an arbitrator may be called in to determine their share of the benefits from the in creased productivity...
...Virginia home. Among the other guests was a young man who works for an electronics firm on the West Coast. The talk turned to Cuba. The young man said that there were rumors among Government contractors that the Soviets were putting a lot of equipment, including electronic gear, into Cuba. Ken Keating, no authority on Cuba, decided to check the rumors...
Cards to Chicken. Today, as Mrs. Post prophesied, the mix-up is on in high gear. There is still a society where the placement of finger bowls is of some concern, but the more people who can afford-or choose to afford-finger bowls, the less important an issue their exact placement becomes. Though manners themselves are still an issue, they are a different set of manners for an increasingly classless society. Where once it mattered how to present a visiting card, now the question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither...