Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear-you sell your cotton to those foreigners at the price they are willing to pay, and we will pay you another 8½? for every pound you sell." Well sir, no sooner were the growers of cotton mollified than the makers of cotton cloth and yarn and clothing began to moan. "All those foreigners," they wailed, "are buying our country's cheap cotton and making it into cheap goods and sending them back here to eat up our markets." (The clothmakers were careful not to remind the President that his country earned much more money selling cotton...
...money in the bank. A $15,000 spinning frame formerly charged off over 30 years at $500 a year will now be depreciated at $1,000 a year for 15 years. Hopefully, these increased tax savings will encourage textile men to buy such new machinery as a fully automated yarn mill now under development that cuts labor costs 40%. Textile men agree that the new write-offs will help mightily, but they are not fully satisfied yet. They vowed a further fight against the No. 1 problem-low-priced foreign imports-through a push for import controls...
...manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn. Even the cover must meet a fine thickness tolerance of .045 to .055 of an inch. The finished ball must weigh in (5 to 5 1/4 oz.) and measure up (9 to 9 1/4: in. around...
...assurance that today's sluggers are hitting the same old ball is confirmed by its chief seamstress. Mrs. Beryl Gauthier, 49. Mrs. Gauthier heads a crew of 75 women who finish the ball-making process by closing the cover seams with exactly 108 double stitches of red yarn. No baseball fan ("Who's Roger Maris?"), Seamstress Gauthier is firm about her craft: "The ball is just the same as it ever...
...warned that unless he bought nylon tires, he dared not drive at high speeds. Leering down from billboards, other ads warned him that if he did buy nylon tires, his car would start shaking him up like a concrete mixer. Battling to supply the $300 million worth of reinforcing yarn used in the 105 million tires made each year in the U.S.. manufacturers of nylon and rayon cord were waging one of the bitterest and least restrained advertising campaigns in modern business history...