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Japan is driving just as hard to recapture her markets. Japanese cotton and rayon yarn are pouring into India; finished fabrics, cutlery and cheap bicycles into East Asia; toys and knickknacks into the U.S. In recent months, Japan has taken contracts for hydroelectric generators and dockside cranes away from the British in both India and Formosa. It is already nudging into first place in the world's exports of cotton cloth; her sales so far this year indicate a 1950 market of 1,000,000,000 yards. Occupation authori ties estimate that Japan will have to sell more than...
...drove seven miles east to a valley called Lowland. They parked bumper-to-bumper close to a limp, dirty tent which was headquarters for the picket line. From there they could see the American Enka Corp.'s Lowland plant and almost hear the whir of machines turning out rayon yarn for automobile tires. For a while, at the end of March, Local 1054 had shut down the plant with its strike, but now the machines were humming at 50-75% of capacity. Enka, a Dutch-owned company, had withdrawn its original offer, called off its recognition of the union...
Bull's Eye. Last week, Pomerantz was ready to collect again. This time his target was Textron Incorporated's Royal Little, who had parlayed a Providence rayon yarn dyeing mill into a $54 million, 20-odd plant textile empire. Textron's baffling labyrinth of foundations and "charitable" trusts had been investigated by Congress, but nobody had ever explored it with such profit as Pomerantz. As usual, he was representing a small (50 shares) stockholder, a Mrs. Lillian Berger of Boston. She, through Pomerantz, charged that Little and his family had been enriched by profits which should have...
...Rayon Steinberg...
...Erifon, a solution which makes cotton and rayon fabrics fire-resistant...