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Trade Talk Highlights Power Laundries as Nation’s Backbone
The steam laundry, a Pacific coast origin, grew through scientific methods and specialized machinery, becoming a major American institution. It stresses skilled workers, modern plant design, and research via the Mellon Institute, linking laundries to hotels and railways and promoting training through trade schools and an American Institute of Laundering in Joliet.
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Pacific Coast
California
Washington
Ourtional Association
Chemical Research
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Pittsburgh
Penna
Chemical Engineering
Mellon Institute
Laundry Owners Association
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bureau of Standards
Shupp
Chicago
Ber
Ohio Mechanics Institute
Cineinnati
New York City
Dun‘woody Institute
Minneapolis
American Institute
National Association
American Institute of Laundering
Joliet, Lil
Joliet