The model stock plan

The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1820833348

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-210730

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Filene, Edward A. http://d-nb.info/gnd/123562244

Title:: The model stock plan

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: McGraw-Hill Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: xiv, 253 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. The way to greater total profits

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK Every one was laughed at who believed that clothes could be made by chemists out of the pulp of trees and cotton waste. The first uses of Artificial Silk in England were for the making of artificial flowers and hat ornaments. Then it was used with mercerized cotton for embroidery purposes and for making the clocks on stockings. The hosiery manufacturers refused to look at it for years. Then, one manufacturer in the Midlands bought a new kind of hosiery machine by accident. He did not know what to do with it. He thought he might as well try it on the new Artificial Silk yarns. He did. He made stockings that cost less and sold like hot cakes. After that, all the hosiery manufacturers tumbled over one another to buy the new yarns. Three months before they had been offered these yarns free, and they had refused them. At about the same time, Artificial Silk jumpers came on the market. They were sold faster than they could be made. Tt was the silk hosiery and the jumpers that first opened the market in Great Britain and America to the Artificial Silk products. -/

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