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Word: belcamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity: 250,000 pairs a day). Seven years ago Thomas Bat'a was killed in his private airplane, but last week his firm came again to the U. S.-it asked bids on an elaborate plant at Belcamp near Baltimore to employ 1,000 shoemakers within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bat'a's Belcamp | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi who was wisely sojourning in Rumania when Germany grabbed Czecho-Slovakia, but has since returned to Zlin. His biggest current problem is the 25% countervailing duty imposed by the U. S. on German-made goods, which completely kills Czech shoe imports (3,250,000 pairs last year). The Belcamp plant is Bat'a's attempt to hold this fat U. S. market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bat'a's Belcamp | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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