Word: wool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like a man coming home out of the yellow wool of a London fog, Great Britain last week set a thankful foot on the doorstep to recovery...
...Wool does not come into market the peasant does not eat his own grain the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand...
...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 off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead, up from vice president in charge of sales to replace Chesly Robert ("Bob") Palmer who, at 65, had decided to take...
...shirt sales climbed, so did the royalties from Sanforizing. This year the company's income from the Sanforizing royalties is running at a rate of $7,000,000-just about equal to the probable 1948 net on its $82 million gross. With, the new wool and rayon processes, it hopes to step up its royalties still more...
...rayon process, called Sanforset, was developed by Cluett, Peabody; the wool process, still unnamed, was licensed from its British developers, Stevensons Ltd. and Woolsey Ltd., and treats the wool with a "secret" chemical...