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Gold Coasters may soon be able to shrink their own socks all by themselves. If enough names are received on a current Adams House petition, the House committee will give serious consideration to providing a Bendix for the basement...
Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. is the biggest U.S. maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed...
...year, Leonard's is neck & neck with Houston's Foley's, Texas' most spectacular retail outlet. Next year Leonard's hopes to leave Foley's far behind. Says brother Marvin: "A store must always grow, or else it's going to shrink...
...Krshihich (an artist and presumably a dreamer) to try to ward off evil by looking the other way; in practice, that method did not work. The U.S. was hopelessly licked in Belgrade because, instead of lighting into evil with fists flying, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon tended to shrink, like the reticent lady of the statue, from Vishinsky...
...saying essentially what the G.I.s were saying in their own way. Said Ernest Bevin in the House of Commons: "None of us can accept surrender." Replied Harold Macmillan, speaking for His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition: "We must . . . face the risk of war . . . The alternative policy-to shrink from the issue-involves not merely the risk but the almost certainty of war." In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall said: "We intend to stay...