Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm in northern Louisiana. When he married Rose McConnell, winner of a baking contest he staged as salesman, he borrowed from her $10 to pay the preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with...
...night the Legislature passed his drop-a-crop cotton bill, he sent out for a cotton nightshirt. Near midnight he had himself photographed in it signing the bill. ''Now I can take this damned thing off!" he exploded afterwards as he climbed back into his silk pajamas...
...news spread. Newshawks, cameramen and scientists went out to St. Charles from Chicago. Manhattan newspapers found the story good enough for Page 1. A group of arachnidologists, interested in the tensile strength of spider silk, visited St. Charles's pumphouse, opined that the spider would win. Examination showed them that the spider was a male, which is usually devoured by the female after mating. As the struggle dragged into the end of its third week odds shifted again. Spider mating season was approaching...
Most popular colors, silk men think, will be Harvard red, followed by black, olive green and royal blue. Trade names for some of the rough crepes include Bagheera, Billowee, Bubble crepe, Krinkle Krepe. Less elegant are two new silk fabrics, Necking Time and Razzle Dazzle...
Largest maker of dress silks is Stehli Silks Corp. Susquehanna, Schwarzenbach Huber & Co., Cheney Bros., C. K. Eagle are all large silk makers, but their business is less specialized. In 1929 Stehli sold 14,000,000 yards-enough for 5,000,000 dresses. About three-fourths was sold to dress manufacturers, one-fourth to stores for over-the-counter distribution. Their annual volume is nearly $25,000,000. The business was founded by Statthalter Rudolph Stehli in Obfelden, Switzerland, in 1837, has remained in the family ever since. The company now has 3, 500 looms scattered through Switzerland, Italy, Germany...