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Demonstration: Prof. Albin Turbak shows how indestructible textiles can be.
Demonstration: Prof. Albin Turbak shows how indestructible textiles can be.

Demonstration: Prof. Albin Turbak shows how indestructible textiles can be.

Date6/9/1988
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0135053F
Demonstration: Prof. Albin Turbak shows how indestructible textiles can be.
Demonstration: Prof. Albin Turbak shows how indestructible textiles can be.
Lennon, Frank
6/9/1988
Michael Davis: President of thriving L. Davis Textiles is one of the beneficiaries of Canadian quotas on textile imports but he complains of gross abuse of quota limits by customs officials to ensure that annual limits are not exceeded. Davis' Toronto firm, which specializes in children's sleepwear, employs 200. About 200,000 are employed in the industry nationally.
Michael Davis: President of thriving L. Davis Textiles is one of the beneficiaries of Canadian quotas on textile imports but he complains of gross abuse of quota limits by customs officials to ensure that annual limits are not exceeded. Davis' Toronto firm, which specializes in children's sleepwear, employs 200. About 200,000 are employed in the industry nationally.
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
1/10/1980
Brainy handful: Prof. Doug Chute shows animal brain used in course research.
Brainy handful: Prof. Doug Chute shows animal brain used in course research.
Spremo, Boris
6/19/1981
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
Bull, Ron
5/11/1989
Ralph Evinrude, chairman of the board of Outboard Marine Corporation of Milwaukee and Peterborough, Ont., shows off a new 200 h.p.-plus, Wankel-type outboard motor in a demonstration at the Miami boat show. Evinrude holds a million shares of Outboard Marine stock currently trading at more than $35 a share.
Ralph Evinrude, chairman of the board of Outboard Marine Corporation of Milwaukee and Peterborough, Ont., shows off a new 200 h.p.-plus, Wankel-type outboard motor in a demonstration at the Miami boat show. Evinrude holds a million shares of Outboard Marine stock currently trading at more than $35 a share.
Toronto Star (Firm)
2/26/1973
Responsibility ignored: Charles Bud Clark, Canadian director of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (textile division) and vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, believes the Ontario government should enact legislation to offer workers shelter from layoffs and plant closures.
Responsibility ignored: Charles Bud Clark, Canadian director of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (textile division) and vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, believes the Ontario government should enact legislation to offer workers shelter from layoffs and plant closures.
Beaty, Keith
12/17/1981
Using his nose to operate radio microphone garage mechanic John Radmacher shows how he called for help after two men tied him hand and foot during robbery at taxi garage on George St
Using his nose to operate radio microphone garage mechanic John Radmacher shows how he called for help after two men tied him hand and foot during robbery at taxi garage on George St
Griffin, Doug
6/17/1971
Handyman: Top man Harvey Coleman shows how to open up Dell's new, easy-access computers.
Handyman: Top man Harvey Coleman shows how to open up Dell's new, easy-access computers.
Bull, Ron
1/8/1993
Richard DeLuca: Shows how he was handcuffed after being mistaken for a bandit.
Richard DeLuca: Shows how he was handcuffed after being mistaken for a bandit.
Darrell, Dick
10/16/1983
Studying rocks is a complicated business. Here Dr. Joseph Mandarino shows 13-year-old Steven Berdock how to operate an x-ray spectograph which is used by the museum for analyzing chemical materials in specimens.
Studying rocks is a complicated business. Here Dr. Joseph Mandarino shows 13-year-old Steven Berdock how to operate an x-ray spectograph which is used by the museum for analyzing chemical materials in specimens.
Darrell, Dick
1/8/1971
Boa construction squirms above his head as former Etobicoke science teacher Bruce McBride shows youngsters at Eatonville Library on Saturday how to handle reptiles
Boa construction squirms above his head as former Etobicoke science teacher Bruce McBride shows youngsters at Eatonville Library on Saturday how to handle reptiles
Bull, Ron
3/28/1976
Using his head: Rick sipos, right, shows fellow students how, by using a device strapped to his head, he typed an essat on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that won his school's literary contest
Using his head: Rick sipos, right, shows fellow students how, by using a device strapped to his head, he typed an essat on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that won his school's literary contest
Russell, Jim
3/28/1984