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...like the arrangement just fine. The U.S. Department of Labor does not. Although never actually sued by the department, Putnam is apparently in violation of Title 29, Chapter V, Part 530, Subsection 2, of the Code of Federal Regulations, which, as any citizen knows, prohibits homework in the knitted outerwear industry...
Putnam protested that the 1941 rule, originally aimed at curbing sweatshop abuses, was mere federal knitpicking. It does not, for instance, ban homework in the unknitted outerwear industry. The department agreed to review the rule, and last week Putnam-along with 32 other witnesses from businesses, trade groups, unions and officials of six states-had his say at a hearing in Washington. "Cottage industry once played an honorable part in America's heritage," he declared afterward. Department officials did not say when, if ever, they might get around to changing the rule. In the meantime, Putnam's workers...
...nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks, boots made from sealskin and caribou, and fur parkas. And down is up everywhere. At many a party, discussing the virtues of feather-stuffed outerwear has replaced talk about the right running gear...
...furs, and their dealers, are coming back. Industry-wide sales for 1975 are expected to reach their highest level (about $525 million) since the postwar boom 25 years ago. Fur sales have grown more dramatically this year than sales of any other kind of outerwear, and still astonished dealers are barely able to meet demand. Says Beverly Hills Furrier Mac Dicker: "It's unreal. I've been in the business for 30 years and never seen anything like...
...slick vinyl fabric offers too little resistance to slides when a skier falls. In Switzerland alone seven Europeans clad in wet-look outerwear have slid to their deaths over ledges and into crevasses...