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COMPETITION in the woolen industry is forcing American Woolen Co., world's biggest woolen and worsted fabrics weavers, into disposing of plants. Company, which lost more than $12 million in the past 21 months, plans to sell eleven of its Northern, mills, concentrate production in newer Southern mills...
Stockings & Tam-o'-Shanter. John Zehntbauer started off at 16 as an apprentice in a little woolen mill in Portland, within a few years raised enough money ($13,500), with the help of his brother and a friend named Carl Christian Jantzen, to start a company on his own. They called it Jantzen because Zehntbauer is too hard to pronounce (rhymes with "bent tower...
...Webster defines "fud" as: 1) the buttocks; also, tail of a hare, cony, etc.; 2) woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy...
...improving and modernizing his plant. He rebuilt his main factory, installed air conditioning, and new machinery, much of which was developed by Bachmann Uxbridge's own research laboratory. Result: output per worker has increased as much as 75%, and Uxbridge is now considered one of the most modern woolen and worsted mills in New England...
...Woolen and worsted mill" is now something of a misnomer for Bachmann Uxbridge. While some woolen and worsted men cursed synthetics, Walter joined the enemy, became one of the nation's first makers of wool and synthetic blends. He pioneered in the blending of wool with rayon, the wool-nylon serge now used by the Army, and the Air Force blue uniform material. After World War II, he started experimenting with such new man-made fibers as Dacron and Orion-now Uxbridge is one of the largest users of synthetics in the woolen and worsted field Says President Walter...