Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk was the bride's dress, and of silk were the speculations of many a Cheney.* Handsome, solemn, gray-haired Charles Cheney, President of Cheney Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...
Like the oilmen, the silkmen desire a limitation of production agreement. Last year a monthly average of 94.5% of all broad looms were in operation. Huge surpluses of finished silk are stacking up in warehouses. Buyers are holding back, waiting for a price break. Like the oilmen, the silkmen need Government acquiescence in an agreement. But the government, much though it might like to, is too tangled up with anti-trust legislation to help or acquiesce in either oil or silk plans (see National Affairs...
...tariff, there would appear to be no limit to the willingness or power of the Government to give Cheneys and others the rates they need. But in this respect, silkmen cannot agree among themselves. Not alone did Vice President Horace Cheney represent the Silk Association of America before the House Ways & Means Committee at Washington. A. P. Stapfer was also there. Mr. Cheney suggested rates double those of 1909. But Mr. Stapfer suggested reduced rates on georgettes, crepe de chines, flat crepes. Reason: the Cheney group is exclusively manufacturing; the Stapfer group both manufactures and imports; and yet a third...
...silk makers fear to risk anti-trust proceedings by agreements to restrict production, and cannot agree among themselves on tariff protection, the overproduction problem seems far from a solution. Hosiery manufacturers (who consume about 50% of silk used in the U. S.) have accumulated enough silk to last for some months, and are not greatly in the market at present prices...
...Reynoldsville, Pa., one Frank Chiffen, silk-mill fireman, shut up his wife in his house and nailed boards over all but one of the windows and doors. At the remaining door he chained three dogs. Whenever he heard the dogs bark he ran home from the mill to investigate. Failing to catch anyone with his wife, he sharpened his axe, ran to the house, decapitated his wife, shot himself through the head...