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Indeed, Italy's mills???from the silk manufacturers of Como to the wool and sportswear producers of Tuscany and the cashmere and menswear fabric mills of Biella?are Europe's largest producers of luxury textiles. And, along with the Japanese, Italians are considered among the greatest fabric innovators. "They innovate by constantly looking outside their industry for ideas," says Angelo Uslenghi, a Milan-based textile cool hunter. "There is not much new you can do to yarns and weaves, but you can look outside the textile industry at other industries such as fine jewelry where they use techniques like filigree...
Unfortunately, the anti-inflationary policy has got off to a stumbling start. In the first regulatory battle, over a proposal by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to lower the level of cotton dust in mills???a proposal Carter's economic advisers considered too costly?the President gave in to the regulators. The Administration has won a few mostly symbolic pledges from some steel, aluminum-and automakers to limit price rises and executive salary increases. More dangerously, labor has refused to promise wage restraint. Meany calls Bosworth, a prune pleader for a wage hold-down, "that skinny redheaded...
...Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus some 100,000 woolen and worsted workers in 500 mills plus some 150,000 silk and rayon workers in 1,000 mills???such was the army that the United Textile Workers called off the job this week. How many mill hands in how many districts would answer the union call, not even the strike leaders themselves knew for sure...
...enemy flag fluttering across the Potomac at Arlington Heights. Flanked by the Three M's?Governor Eugene Meyer Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board, who was director of War Finance Corp. and to whom hurried calls to the White House were not new, and Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills???President Hoover sat at a small desk. In front of him were 36 comfortable chairs. In the chairs were seated his "little Congress," actually a coalition caucus, since those members of the Opposition were present who could carry out a joint program in Congress if they wanted to. The President arose...
...paramount significance ard: these facts, in the last 13 years Japan has risen from supplying 3% of India's imported textiles to 13.6%; Great Britain has declined from 97.1% to 82%. Indian textile mills???anathema to St. Gandhi?now produce 45.2% of the national consumption...
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