Today’s textile service providers face the daily challenge of minimizing losses associated with the abuse, theft and misplacement of rented or COG textiles. It’s a serious problem, but not one that threatens the life of most companies. 
 
Linen suppliers in the closing weeks of World War II faced a far different situation. The mobilization had spurred shortages of consumer goods—including cotton towels. By early 1945, the situation had deteriorated to the point that a linen conservation program begun two years earlier was expanded with a public relations campaign aimed at fostering a “mobilization for cotton goods ...