Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events in U. S. shipping circles last week recalled the situation in the old nursery rhyme that begins "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?" It will be recalled that the black sheep had three bags full, one for the master, one for the dame, but none for the little boy that lived down the lane. In last week's modernization of Mother Goose, the U. S. Post Office and the U. S. Shipping Board were accused of being the black sheep. The wool-bags were mailbags, and the Cunard Line was the little boy who got nothing...
...honest young Hamburger seeks to enter the Hamburg Guild of Journeymen Carpenters, he faces harsh Medieval tribulations, searching tests. After suitable apprenticeship he must wander about Germany, carpentering, for three years. As a full-fledged member of the Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal...
...Jewels. In Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
Likewise on Fifth Avenue, and just one block from Black, Starr & Frost is the retail store of the Rhode Island silver-&-goldsmiths, Gorham Manufacturing Co. For almost a century Gorham silver and gold has furnished U. S. dining rooms, churches. Gorham bronze has gone into the careful details of U. S. buildings...
Last week Black, Starr & Frost and its near neighbor, the Gorham store (not the Gorham manufacturing concern) were working out details of a merger, which obviously could not impair the traditions of either. Alfred & Co. are the bankers...