Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class, but he speeds everything up so much that before you're through you feel like a raw beginner." The school's three ballroom-size classrooms are busy from io to 7, six days a week. Its entrance hall is always acrawl with teen-agers in woolen practice tights, knitting, gossiping, giggling between sessions. Many of them take lessons every day (cost: some $450 a year). After their third year, the girls put on their first toe slippers; after their seventh or eighth, the most talented pupils are ready for positions in the company...
COMPETITION in the woolen industry is forcing American Woolen Co., world's biggest woolen and worsted fabrics weavers, into disposing of plants. Company, which lost more than $12 million in the past 21 months, plans to sell eleven of its Northern, mills, concentrate production in newer Southern mills...
Stockings & Tam-o'-Shanter. John Zehntbauer started off at 16 as an apprentice in a little woolen mill in Portland, within a few years raised enough money ($13,500), with the help of his brother and a friend named Carl Christian Jantzen, to start a company on his own. They called it Jantzen because Zehntbauer is too hard to pronounce (rhymes with "bent tower...
...Webster defines "fud" as: 1) the buttocks; also, tail of a hare, cony, etc.; 2) woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy...
...Woolen and worsted mill" is now something of a misnomer for Bachmann Uxbridge. While some woolen and worsted men cursed synthetics, Walter joined the enemy, became one of the nation's first makers of wool and synthetic blends. He pioneered in the blending of wool with rayon, the wool-nylon serge now used by the Army, and the Air Force blue uniform material. After World War II, he started experimenting with such new man-made fibers as Dacron and Orion-now Uxbridge is one of the largest users of synthetics in the woolen and worsted field Says President Walter...