Word: apparel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than 3,000 apparel buyers from all over the U.S. and Hawaii splashed through a Los Angeles rainstorm, scrambling to place orders for spring and summer sportswear from the 1,000 small factories already operating...
...this, except the almost blasphemous weather, was good and exciting news to the local citizenry. Eight years ago they were forced to buy nearly all their clothes from Eastern manufacturers, had none to sell in return. Now the local apparel industry is 475% bigger than it was then, employs 35,000 people and does a business of $265,000,000 a year, selling 85% of its products east of the Rockies...
...Magnin's has been the nation's second largest retailer of top-priced women's wear, topped only by Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue. Magnin's is still the largest buyer in the high-priced wholesale dress market (Saks makes much of its fine apparel in its own workshop) and has long had exclusive West Coast rights to that market's haut monde...
...total count of cannon, tanks and trucks. One guess at the loot taken from Arnim's armies: a thousand fieldpieces, two or three hundred tanks, six or seven hundred planes. No one would guess at the haul of small equipment: machine guns, mortars, and such oddments of fighting apparel as helmets and side arms...
...vehicle for acid-resistant, waterproof or fireproof coatings-because it contains no interstices at all. Where Masslinn will fit into the post war cotton-goods market is any man's guess. Robert Harper, manager of J. & J.'s Masslinn Division, disclaims any designs on the apparel field, says that Masslinn's present tensile strength makes it unsuitable for clothing or merchandise that must wear for a long time...