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2. Hoover free flights promotion - Wikipedia

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   The Hoover free flights promotion was a marketing promotion run by the British division of the Hoover Company in late 1992. The promotion, aiming to boost sales during the global recession of the early 1990s, offered two complimentary round-trip plane tickets to the United States, worth about £600, to any customer purchasing at least £100 in Hoover products. [1]

3. Harry Reid International Airport - Wikipedia

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   The carrier began offering cheap night flights to Las Vegas in 1986. [21] It ultimately developed a hub at the airport that functioned between 10 pm and 2 am every night. The strategy capitalized on the fact that Las Vegas was open 24 hours a day and enabled the airline to decrease costs.

4. Offcut - Wikipedia

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   An offcut or off-cut is material left over after a workpiece is cut or processed, such as in masonry, metalworking, woodworking, industrial or domestic food processing, and textile manufacturing.

5. Finishing (textiles) - Wikipedia

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   Mercerisation makes the woven cotton fabric stronger, more lustrous, and less abrasive, and improves its dye affinity. Raising lifts the surface fibers to improve the softness and warmth, as in flannelette. Peach Finish subjects the fabric (either cotton or its synthetic blends) to emery wheels, making the surface velvet-like. This is a special ...

6. Textile - Wikipedia

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   The fabric needs vary greatly depending on the application. Similar types of fabric may not be suitable for all applications. [125] Fabric weight is an important criteria while producing different fabrics. A carpet requires a fabric with 1300 GSM, but a robe may be made with 160 GSM. Certainly, fabrics for clothes and carpets have distinct ...

7. Fabric (club) - Wikipedia

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   Fabric (stylized as fabric) is a nightclub in Farringdon, London, England. Founded in 1999 on Charterhouse Street opposite Smithfield Market , the club was voted World Number 1 Club in DJ Magazine ' s "Top 100 Clubs Poll" in 2007 and 2008 [ 2 ] and ranked World Number 2 in 2009, 2010 and 2017.

8. Howard Hughes - Wikipedia

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   Hughes H-1 Racer, Transcontinental airspeed record from Los Angeles to Newark NJ (1937), round the world airspeed record (1938) Signature Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer , business magnate , film producer , investor , philanthropist and aircraft pilot . [ 2 ]

9. Environmental impact of fashion - Wikipedia

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   The fashion industry, particularly manufacture and use of apparel and footwear, is a significant driver of greenhouse gas emissions and plastic pollution. [1] The rapid growth of fast fashion has led to around 80 billion items of clothing being consumed annually, with about 85% of clothes consumed in United States being sent to landfill.