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Work for the Kitty. Textileman Duhamel, 56, who sold noodles before setting up his enterprise with $300 capital in 1935, is no philanthropist. His company's yearly sales of $5,000,000 are not going to suffer for "snow and sew." Before he built the chalet for $200,000, Duhamel made sure his workers agreed to his plan. Though there are no time clocks to punch in St. Sorlin, each group of 40 is expected to produce 10,800 toddlers' shorts during its four-week period...
...Absolute Prerogative." In 1956 the union tackled South Carolina's Darlington Manufacturing Co., one of 27 mills and 17 companies making up a combine called Deering Milliken & Co. Manhattan Textileman Roger Milliken argued bitterly that union wages would sink Darlington, which he said was already in the red. By a margin of six votes, the union won the right to represent Darlington's 550 workers. Milliken immediately closed the plant, a move that depressed the town (pop. 7,000) and crippled the union's entire Southern campaign. Textile manufacturers festooned the region with bumper stickers that warned...
...firm that has contributed most to the prosperity of Hong Kong's textile industry, and profited most from it, is South Sea Textile Manufacturing, the colony's biggest spinner and weaver and the creation of a sprightly textileman named P.Y. (for Ping Yuan) Tang. Last week Tang, 65, was negotiating with Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries and another Hong Kong spinner to build Hong Kong's first dyeing and finishing plant for processing blends of cotton and synthetic fibers. Tang expects to increase his production 15% this year, and his 2,000 employees work three shifts...
Died. Harry Johnston Grant, 81, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, one of the biggest (circ. 361,875) and most prosperous dailies, a onetime textileman who took over from Lucius Nieman in 1919 and made the Journal the chronicle of Beertown, ordering exhaustive local and national coverage, extreme independence (leading liberals to damn it as too conservative, while Wisconsin's late Senator McCarthy dubbed it "the Milwaukee edition of the Worker"), saw his paper play a major role in giving Milwaukee the Braves and one of the nation's lowest crime rates; after a long illness; in Milwaukee...
...Rose sharply, then fell sharply. 80. This industry leader said, with good reason: "Ours is the only major industry where prices are lower-and yet quality is higher-than ten years ago." a) Textileman James Spencer Love...