Not a Fool, Not a Saint

摘要

At a European trade show in Brussels during the first week of September, Maiden Mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts, introduced a broad new line of high-end upholstery fabrics. Buyers snapped up the sleek material, derived from the company's hugely successful line of Polar-tec and Polarfleece apparel knits. A victory, certainly. And one more step in an uphill comeback by a factory that suffered one of the biggest industrial fires in New England history less than a year ago, a factory whose owner achieved heroic stature by keep more than 1,000 jobless employees at full pay for several month after the blaze.