Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...
When Elsie Murphy went job-hunting in 1934, she wanted to make a million. She thought the best chance was in the wholesale fabric business, where there were few women, and she picked S. Stroock & Co., Inc., as her target. President Sylvan Stroock offered her something less than a million, but Elsie took the job anyway-at $20 a week. By last week chic, shrewd Mrs. Murphy had still not made her million. But, at 41, she did become the $35,000-a-year president of the company (Sylvan Stroock moved himself up to the new post of board chairman...
...equal in this country in her hand-and-arm technique--it seems like a form of withcraft the way she can make her arms turn into writhing cobras, or her hands become slowly-opening lotus blossoms--and it is no less fascinating to see her make a piece of fabric tell a story. But all of these things seem to belong to the decorative arts, not to the creative. However, every dancer, indeed every interpretative artist, could still learn much from her, as many of our most famous dancers have...
Ward knew that the wartime textile boom would not last forever. Three years ago he set his research chief, Everett Nutter, to developing a new cloth to meet the hot competition of rayons and tropical worsteds. The shakedown in the textile industry came before Nutter's new fabric was ready. In the first three quarters of Goodall-Sanford's last fiscal year, the company's profits fell 51%; Ward quickly decided on his price-cut to clear out stocks for his new fabric...