Word: prewar
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...woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff with servants. There are the bright new cottages (Cuthbert now lives in one) built for textile workers who, before...
...interest) reported that Britain's manpower shortage is the biggest obstacle to full development of the cotton industry. This is a stock answer when any country finds its standard of living unsatisfactory because its productivity per man has decreased. Then the committee tackled the real problem: how can prewar mills, with obsolescent spindles, be converted into modern plants needing fewer but higher paid workers...
Wallace's boldest competitor is David (Esquire) Smart's smart and colorful Coronet. By dropping its cuts of Etruscan vases in favor of homey pictures of kids & pets, it had shot up (said Smart) to 4,000,000 from a puny prewar 120,000. Recently Coronet got into a "saturation race" with the Digest. Both had been selling out regularly. Now armed with more paper, they dumped thousands of extra copies on the market to see what it could stand. Returns jumped heavily, but both hit their biggest circulations in history for that time of year...
Nevertheless, textilemen expected shortages to harass consumers for some time. They guessed that the sellers' market in men's suits may not end for a year, although suit production is now above prewar. As for women's dresses, there should be a large supply in the stores by next fall...
Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...