Word: clothe
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Hygienic Practice As landfills reached critical overload, citizens looked for solutions. Increasing numbers of households bundled newspapers for recycling. Business establishments added bins for recyclable cans and bottles. And debate raged over disposable vs. cloth diapers...
...such example: a worker leaves the factory one day with a wheelbarrow covered with a cloth. The guard looks under the cloth, finds nothing there, and waves him on. The same procedure repeats for three days, when finally the guard asks the employee: "Look comrade, you must be stealing something. What...
...time, direct mail evoked only two names: Montgomery Ward and Richard Sears. Ward, a Midwest traveling salesman, had a simple idea: "Sell directly to the consumer and save them the profit of the middleman." In 1872 he published a one-page listing of 163 items, from red flannel cloth to oilcloth table covers, and mail order as we know it today was born. Fourteen years later, Sears, a Minnesota railroad-station agent, decided to mail a few $12 watches to his peers for $14 apiece. When the ploy worked, Sears hooked up with a Chicago watchmaker named A.C. Roebuck...
Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...
McArthur Towels in Baraboo, Wis., thinks it has an answer to the controversy over female reporters in pro-football locker rooms. The company's recommendation: a cover-up. McArthur, which supplies terry-cloth products to the National Football League, has begun donating some 2,000 wraps and robes for all the players on the league's 28 teams. The robes and the kilt-like wraps, which are held around the waist with a Velcro closure, come in white or the team color. "They are handy, I suppose. They look nice," said Cincinnati Bengals head coach Sam Wyche, who was fined...