Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim, grey pile beside the Charles River looks chilly on a summer day, and in December seems too austere to support life. But only one or two other U.S. centers of science have been as fruitful during the past decade as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last week M.I.T. named as its new president a man who. with outgoing President James R. Killian Jr., deserves a large measure of the credit: Chancellor Julius Adams Stratton...
...Neuberger retired to the study of the Senator's rambling, green Portland home, spread papers on a coffee table, reached agreement on an all-for-Oregon, nine-point agenda, e.g., if increase in the state gasoline tax to assure federal highway funds, a development corporation for the Columbia River...
...white and flat as a bedsheet for the past two years, last week showed signs of returning to health. Among the best indicators were textile share prices, which closed 50% above their 1958 lows. Since last spring, Burlington Industries has gone from 9½ to 14½, Dan River Mills from 9⅛ to 14⅛, M. Lowenstein & Sons from nf to 15, J. P. Stevens from...
Such improved synthetics have cut into the market for Old King Cotton. In one generation the percentage of cotton-fiber sales dipped from 85% to 65% of total U.S. fiber sales. But cottonmen are fighting back by developing goods with wash-and-wear finishes. Most of Dan River's cottons are now treated with finish that produces drip-dry, wrinkle-free cotton shirts, bedsheets...
...sell the new fabrics, textilemen are planning their first major industrywide promotion campaign. Dan River has called for textilemakers to raise $10 million to $15 million a year for the promotion. Other major producers are ready to go along. For one thing, they would like to induce the American male to take as intense an interest in his own clothes as he does in his wife's apparel. If the average U.S. man spent as much of his income on clothing today as he did in 1929, sales of textile products would soar by some $3 billion a year...