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Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, Massachusetts' representative on a special New England Textile Committee, was yesterday elected chairman of the group at a State House meeting. The committee will try to get more defense contracts for the cotton and rayon goods industry in this area...
...spring line, more than 75% of Bigelow's carpets will use synthetics (carpet rayon), compared to only 27% a year ago. Other carpet companies, e.g., James Lees & Sons, are doing the same. To many a carpetmaker, the switch is the biggest single change in the industry since the invention of the carpet power loom more than 100 years...
This year consumption of carpet rayon will top 30 million lbs. v. 12.5 million in 1950. The synthetics, say carpetmakers, wear as well as wool, are easier to dye, and stay clean as long. They hope that the shift to synthetics will stabilize prices and put the harassed carpet industry back on its feet...
Madame Murashkina proved to be a grandmother and an engineer, a pale, thin woman of 47 with drawn-back grey hair, austerely dressed in a rough tweed suit, shapeless black hat, flat-heeled shoes and rayon stockings. With her was a smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat...
...Virginia's Dan River Mills, Inc. announced a new process, mysteriously labeled X2, which it claims will make rayon wear twice as long, resist shrinking, wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped...