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...content with tying up or bothering, to a greater or lesser degree, the coal industry, the steel industry, the automobile industry, the shoe industry, and a number of other industries. Mr. Lewis has now turned toward the 1,250,000 workers involved in the manufacture of woolen, cotton, rayon, jute, and other clothing goods. Eighting northern as well as southern manufacturers, John demands a minimum wage of eighteen dollars, four dollars higher than N.R.A., a maximum hour week of thirty-five hours, and recognition of the C.I.O...
Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate young U. S. architects would go the proceeds from 2,000 tickets sold at $10 apiece...
Largest for any month in history except June 1933 and January 1929 was the consumption of raw cotton in October (646,000 bales). Yarn mills in the rayon trade have been at capacity for more than a year. In woolens, unfilled orders for men's wear goods have doubled since September, with prices...