History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Whiteley; generalsuperintendent, P. W. Kiernan. Directors,beside Messrs. Moors, Jones, Fisher, andCoolidge, are Edward Lovering, Charles , and Charles S. Shepard. The Company specializes in finishingcambrics, nainsooks, khakis, towels, pocket-ings, etc. In recent years extensive businesshas necessitated enlarging the Lowell plant,whose annual turnover is more than 1 8,000,-000 pounds. In 1913 a small branch wasstarted at St. Louis in a hired building. Busi-ness increased so that in 1917 the Companyoccu
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Whiteley; generalsuperintendent, P. W. Kiernan. Directors,beside Messrs. Moors, Jones, Fisher, andCoolidge, are Edward Lovering, Charles , and Charles S. Shepard. The Company specializes in finishingcambrics, nainsooks, khakis, towels, pocket-ings, etc. In recent years extensive businesshas necessitated enlarging the Lowell plant,whose annual turnover is more than 1 8,000,-000 pounds. In 1913 a small branch wasstarted at St. Louis in a hired building. Busi-ness increased so that in 1917 the Companyoccupied its own modern plant. Businessamounted to nearly 4,000,000 pounds in1920. A large addition recently erectedaffords facilities for a still larger business. HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. CHAS. T. MAIN WELL KNOWN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER AND EXPERT ON POWER PLANTS, OF BOSTON The part of the industrial engineer todayis certain to be a more important one thanever before. He is confronted with prob-lems of the first magnitude, on the solutionof which must depend to a large extent the. CHARLES T. MAIN immediate future of American that we again face w^orld competitionupon the most intensive scale it is of press-ing moment that we find ways to do thingseconomically and efficiently. And theymust be done in a big way—bigger than wehave heretofore attempted. Happily thereis every assurance that the good work will go rapidly forward. If any proof wereneeded it would be only necessary to citethe demand for industrial engineering talentof the first calibre. This demand is urgentand arises on all sides. New building pro-grams are being formulated in many indus-tries, and we may expect to see an earlybeginning of important operations. Among the well known industrial engi-neers of the country the name of Charles , Boston, is a familiar one. Mr. Mainhas done some very interesting things in hisfield, having had a hand in the evolution ofnumerous large enterprises. His business
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