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...Department of Agriculture moved in smoothly and efficiently. On order of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, it designated as disaster areas parts of Missouri and Arkansas and the entire states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine and Massachusetts. (Maine's Republican commissioner of agriculture, Fred Nutter, snapped that Washington had made Maine a disaster area over his objection. "They wanted us to ask for it," said he, "and we didn't want it.") The disaster rating allowed farmers to apply for 3% Government loans to finance their next crops, and assured them of an extension...
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...
...change in the new cloth is the abandonment of cotton, which Everett Nutter's older brother William first wove with mohair in 1906 to produce the original Palm Beach cloth. The new cloth will have just about as much mohair, but the "scratch" will be taken out by wrapping it in rayon and nylon. The mohair core, said Ward, makes the cloth almost wrinkleproof, the rayon makes it cool. With it he hopes to keep ahead of his rayon and worsted competitors with a suit that combines some of the features of both...
Charles R. Nutter...
John W. Woodward '49--Shirley Nutter...