Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...export. Imported consumer goods are priced beyond reach of the average Formosan. "The Chinese are squeezing us," complain the islanders. "They put everything into their pockets. They act like people who don't plan to be around very long. The Japanese at least furnished us with the cloth and consumer goods we needed...
...historic occasion, as historic as the one more than 20 years ago when the company brought out its famed Van Heusen collar* and revolutionized the shirt industry. Phillips hoped to start another revolution with his no-wrinkle collar. He had worked the trick by weaving the several plies of cloth used for an ordinary collar into a single thickness...
...Named for Inventor John M. Van Heusen who, by weaving cloth in a curve, achieved a collar with a graceful "fold" line, avoiding the "gaps" that occur when a straight piece of cloth is bent into a circle...
...amateur's job of lath and inch-thick cement. Half-inch ventilation holes were drilled through another wall into a hallway. The only other opening was a hole six by eight inches in the chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda...
...Stillman is an institution devoted to the elimination of sleep. The daily routine starts at 6:30 a.m., when the sick student, comfortably clad in a pair of T-shaped cloth objects distinguishable only by a drawstring through the top of one, finds the pleasant mouth of the nurse pressed close to his ear. She is quietly calling his name. Outside to the east, the sky is still graying, but this does not bother the efficient nurse. She likes to Get Things Done. She takes to paticut's temperature with a wet mouth thermometer. He goes back to sleep...