Word: linens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lush Oriental rug, a set of expensive linen damask tablecloths, and several old issues of the CRIMSON valued at $75 apiece, were destroyed by the hungry jaws of 200 black mice which were dumped into the CRIMSON building last week by a vandal yet unidentified...
...three months hence was the debut of "Macy's of Syracuse," N.Y., a streamlined, semi-self-service, all-merchandise-on-the-counter downtown shop. Located between a Woolworth's and a Kresge's, it will offer for cash only "soft goods" (clothing, accessories, linen, etc.)-fast-selling items already tested in the New York store...
Until a few years ago linen rags were the only base for cigaret tissues. Then chemists made what seemed to many a layman an obvious discovery-that the rag stage could be bypassed and tissue could be made direct from flax. To U. S. flax farmers, principally in Minnesota, California and North Dakota, this means that Ecusta alone will take the crop from 75,000 to 100,000 acres. If other U. S. cigaret paper makers complete the switch from rag base to flax, farmers of another 75,000 to 100,000 acres will have found a market for their...
...waiters indignantly denied every impeachment but the last. If they were guilty of "keeping dirty tables" it was only on the order of Mr. Billingsley, who, they said, instructed them not to "bother about changing the linen on the table . . . when you are serving parties that do not pay, because they cannot kick if they do not pay." Real reason for their being fired, they said, was for trying to join a union. (Several of them, said Mr. Billingsley, did not try to join a union till the day they were fired...
...hospital facilities in the 48 States. On his desk last week were blueprints of neat little one-story hospitals, some of wood, others of brick and adobe, each planned to house 100 beds. Estimated cost: $150,000 apiece, including X-ray equipment, surgical instruments, laboratory machinery, everything but bed linen...