Word: behr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With "Norzon," an artificial suede fabric, the Behr-Manning Co. of Troy, N.Y. hit the jackpot. Because Norzon wears as well as real suede and can be washed with soap & water, shoemakers were quick to use it. In 2^ years they have put Norzon into an estimated 35 million pairs of shoes. But like many another company with something good to sell, Behr-Manning has been plagued by cheap imitations and complaints when the imitations did not hold...
This week, Behr-Manning began foiling imitators. Henceforth, its trademark will be stamped with a special ink on every piece of Norzon. Even when hidden by the lining, the stamp will show up under an X-ray machine such as many shoe stores now use for fitting...
...handsomely housed, shabby little Japanese manufacturers eagerly crowded around businessmen, jotted down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from the U.S. to assure production of some sheet steel his company wanted to order. But SCAP, constrained by the needs of the still shaky occupation economy, refused to guarantee that the coal would not be used for some...
...helpless; his arms dropped and his head jerked back & forth as Rocky hit him at will. After nearly 40 punches, Steelman Zale had not gone down, but he was lying inertly doubled over the ropes, with Graziano hammering him as if he were trying to decapitate him. Referee Johnny Behr pulled Rocky away and stopped the fight. Whitey Bimstein, Rocky's second, leaped into the center of the ring to congratulate him-and promptly had to dodge a vicious left. Rocky was still fighting, without the faintest idea of what was going...
...there on the dot of 8 and actually got inside the door, but that was all; he heard about "George Behr-nard Shaw" from the midst of the s. r. o. crowd, and Providence had placed a six-foot Radcliffe girl in front of him as an added feature...