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While such promotion is being readied, counselors are trained in regular classes and graded on-a point system. About a dozen usually flunk and are tactfully asked to resign; marginal cases (especially those who dress sloppily) are held on "reserve," and the best students become "front-row" counselors (wearing red...
"We are going to do our best to discourage marginal candidates this fall, but there seems little chance that applications will be under last year's total."
As in other industries, textilemen were faced with rising production costs. But their problem was worse. Featherbedding was suffocating the highly organized mills of New England. For example, some union contracts specified that a millhand could tend no more than six looms, even though workers in unorganized factories were tending...
Despite the closing of Northern mills, the industry is still saddled with too many antiquated, marginal mills. The Census Bureau's 1950 count still showed more than 10,000 textile mills operating in the U.S., 73% of them with fewer than 100 employees each, compared to 6,400 mills...
Nevertheless, amid all the troubles, some companies are showing the way out. Deering, Milliken & Co., Inc. has pioneered in combining synthetic and natural fibers and has found profitable new markets. Cone Mills has profitably boosted denim for men's suits, curtains, etc. For many other companies mergers are probably...