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USD / cent / /
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Natural Disaster / Person Communication and Meetings / Product Issues / Reorganization / Name Change / /
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Knitting Research Institute / Ellison Center / University of Economics / University of Washington / State Textile Research Institute / Open-end Spinning Project The Research Institute / Bocconi University / Wool Research Institute / Technical University of Liberec / Cotton Research Institute / American Textile History Museum / /
IndustryTerm
precision manufacturing / machinery / metal traveler / satellite countries / textile machinery / yarn-carrying device / manufacturing methods / technology transfer literature / project management / manufacturing approaches / historical infrastructure / manufacturing equipment / /
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University of Washington / Central Committee / State Textile Research Institute / Knitting Research Institute / Bocconi University / Ministry of Light Industry / International Committee for the History of Technology / Wool Research Institute / Cotton Research Institute / US Federal Reserve / Ellison Center for Russian / European Commission / Czechoslovak Communist Party / Harvard Business School / Research Institute for Cotton and Silk / Institute for Textile Technology of Elitex / International Textile Machine Association / Czechoslovak government / American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies / University of Economics / Prague / Technical University of Liberec / Textile Faculty / Communist Party / Institute for Non-Woven Textiles / /
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Thomas P. Hughes / Karen Johnson Freeze / Jaromír Kašpárek / Susanne Franke / Dietmar Petzin / Stalin / Nikita Khrushchev / Ivan Tchalakov / Leopold Čížek / Vratislav Zlevor / Raymond G. Stokes / George Worrall / Valentina Fava / Jaroslav Šůla / Thomas Kosche / Vladislav Hýbl / Rainer Klump / Milos Wilfert / Johannes Bähr / Josef Ripka / Václav Rohlena / N. Mohan Reddy / Ladislav Bureš / Alois Richtr / Karen J. Freeze / Cristiano Antonelli / Josef Hybl / Liming Zhao / /
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industrial spy / Industrial designer / detective / affiliate lecturer / historian / rotor head / author / Mixed Model of International Diffusion / general manager / director / rising manager in the textile sector / fabric producer / working model / VÚB turned / premier / /
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understanding / /
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Colorado / Maryland / /
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Central Europe / Eastern Europe / /
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Unlikely Partners and the Management of Innovation in Communist Europe: A Case Study from the Czechoslovak Textile Machine Industry