Broadlooms and Businessmen

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Since Bigelow-Sanford is the oldest company in the industry, this comprehensive history of the development of carpetmaking from the point of view of top management and from the point of view of the nature of product changes will be important to everyone who has an interest in the evolution of the medium-sized business, and in particular problems encountered in the manufacture and sale of carpets.