Word: rayons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...priced reasonably, but any luxury sells at outrageous prices, largely because of the sale tax. The average cost of a new British automobile, smaller and less powerful than the smallest Chevvy or Ford, runs about three thousand dollars. Concomitantly, wages are ridiculously low according to our standards. A skilled rayon mill weaver or wool spinning worker makes between twelve and fifteen dollars a week--wages long since vanished from the American scene...
...manufacturers.* The proposed combine would put 28 mills under one management, give the company the industry's biggest capitalization: $75 million. The fabric would be loosely woven, with each company keeping its present management and operating as a division of Stevens. Biggest advantage: common ownership of mills making rayon, cotton and woolen fabrics, as a hedge against a collapse in the market of any one of the fabrics...
...Association, three in gay kimonos, who bowed gravely and offered greetings (in Japanese): "All the women of Yokosuka have been waiting to meet the wives. We want to learn American ways." As they eyed American legs, it was clear that they wanted to learn how to get rayon or nylon stockings...
...when every aspect of the national effort has to be directed into the most economical channels. The Government's new role in industry constitutes an economic revolution against self-directing free enterprise. The Cleggs of the cotton industry and vigorous leaders in young industries like aircraft, plastics, and rayon textiles, might salvage a sizable chunk of the industrial process for free enterprise as it is known in the U.S. But in the planning for cotton, Britons could see the pattern for the British version of "free" enterprise, with the state as efficiency expert as well as overall planner...
...three years. Last week Wildman Little did turn a trick. He paid $12 million to Benjamin Brown Gossett for his mills in Charlotte, N.C. and Anderson, S.C., thus adding twelve southern mills to Textron's 13 in New England, and more than doubling Textron's cotton and rayon capacity. But Little still has to perform his main trick-making Textron the most integrated and most profitable U.S. textile company...