Textile/Apparel Industry survival. Textile
schools such as the one at N.C. State
University, serving an international student
clientele, were poised to do scholarly things
to aid the survival process. It was the
beginning of very interesting times for the
domestic U.S. Textile/Apparel Industry. A
key issue among textile and apparel industry
and government leaders of the time was the
supply chain structure (Cooper, Hamby,
Shaw, Hard 1977