21.   The textile plant is closed and the once-thriving port on the Congo River is quiet.

22.   The textile plants started giving machine jobs to blacks.

23.   The two textile plants in Lezhnevo are idle.

24.   The union contended that the closing was illegal and that it was at least partly intended to discourage unionization of other textile plants.

25.   There are plans to set up an arts and crafts shop and a small textile plant, both of which would employ a mix of Italians and Kurds.

26.   There is only one other textile plant in town, owned by West Point Stevens of West Point, Ga., but openings are scarce.

27.   Those services range from the related -- such as the schools and hospital -- to the separate, such as textile plants and limestone mines.

28.   Time and again, I have seen stories about foreign competition killing American jobs as a textile plant or a steel mill shuts down.

29.   UNITE, a successor to the old Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, has recently won several victories at smaller textile plants in the South.

30.   Worcester, once a hub of textile plants and wiremaking factories, has been struggling to reinvent itself.