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More than 300 firms have leaped into production. The most spectacular corporate success in double knits has been eight-year-old Texfi Industries Inc., headquartered in Greensboro, N.C. Texfi President Joseph Hamilton, 51, who left his job at Burlington Indus tries to help found the firm, was quick to see the need for a single producer who could knit, dye and finish the fabric. He borrowed money, issued a public stock offering to get more and went into production. Texfi is now the biggest producer of double knits, with estimated sales this year of $160 million, a 66% increase over...
...revulsion." It is a revulsion against foreign domination, whether cultural, economic or political -and even unsophisticated Arabs recognize that Communism is a foreign import. Arabs still dream of the time, twelve centuries ago, when their forebears dominated a vast sweep of Europe, from the banks of the Indus to the valley of the Loire. They might use Communist help in hopes of restoring that glorious past, but they are not likely to accept Communist suzerainty...
...team of archaeologists has been trying to explore the relationships, especially trade, between the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia 600 miles to the west, and the Indus Valley, 600 miles to the east...
...Clover. To support this conclusion, she darts around history hunting for examples like a bee in a clover field. Ancient Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, Tokyo in 1900, medieval Antwerp are all plundered for signs of stagnation or growth. But her key comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns...
...small accomplishment in view of the un certainty clouding such key aluminum users as the automobile and home-building industries. Part of the explanation is customer stockpiling as a precaution ary hedge against a possible aluminum strike this summer. The company has also benefited from the copper indus try's marathon strike, during which it has made headway in its efforts to substitute aluminum for copper in telephone cables. Although technological problems still have to be overcome before aluminum can compete with all other metal industries in a big way, Alcoa President John D. Harper, 58, maintains that...