Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massapoag is the first mill in the U.S. to be completely fitted with Japanese-made spinning equipment. Standing beside his Japanese machines. Textile Veteran David Hunter ("Buck") Mauney, mill superintendent and principal owner with his brother Bill, says: alt's beautiful stuff. We're getting better quality yarn, and we're saving labor...
...heart of the Carolinas' textile area, where Japanese imports are scorned and clerks have been known to apologize to customers for low-priced but well-made Japanese blouses. Buck Mauney's move was bold. He made it in August last year after his U.S.-equipped yarn mill had burned down. Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000. The best price for nearly comparable U.S. equipment was $540.-ooo. Furthermore, the Japanese equipment eliminates a full step...
...California Institute of Technology, Pierce. 50, studied chemical engineering, switched to aeronautics and then ("I got bored drawing rivets") to electronics. Holder of 55 electronics patents, Pierce has written three technical books and seven (under the pseudonym of J. J. Coupling), science-fiction stories. His first space-fiction yarn, written in high school, described the abduction of New York's Woolworth Building by aliens from Outer Space...
...yarn, skillfully embroidered by Producer-Director George Pal and Scriptwriter David Duncan, brings up to date H. G. Wells's 1895 romance. Disheartened by the alarms of his time-Boer War news is bad-an idealistic London inventor, agreeably acted by Rod Taylor, constructs a machine able to move about in time (it bears a plaque reading "Manufactured by H. George Wells"). He invites some incredulous friends to hear his adventures at a dinner five days hence, then eases the throttle forward in search of peace and good will...
Miller's yarn, first published as a highly effective short story, follows three Western drifters in their pursuit of wild horses as they force the mustangs out of mountain passes by terrifying them with a low-swooping airplane, eventually trap them for sale as dog meat. Two of the "mustangers" refer to a vaguely mutual mistress named Roslyn. In the movie version, Roslyn has moved to the center and become, by the author's admission, a closely personal portrait of his wife...