Word: brassy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others have prospered along with Lee, and the Hong Kong garment industry to day has estimated assets worth $200 million. Exports to the U.S. (chiefly brassières, nightgowns, pajamas, blouses and men's slacks and shirts) are expected to be more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...
...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...
Pigs in a Brassière Factory. Dave's father is a salty old reprobate who once ran off with the family doctor's wife and returned only to booze away his social security money at the local bars. Older brother Frank, acting head of the family, is a canny millionaire-in-the-making and a guilt-ridden lecher who loses successive mistresses to his wife's beagle-eyed sleuthing. Dave cannot stand the pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young...
...this era of the "roll-of-oilcloth" figure, high fashion decreed bosom-flattening brassi...
...terse. To avoid suspension, barked the A.F.L.-C.I.O. president, the textile workers would have to clean house, bounce Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klenert, who, the McClellan committee revealed, had used union funds for a down payment on a house, charged the U.T.W.A. with such expenditures as his wife's brassières and $2,564.65 for 24 My Fair Lady theater parties. The union must also fire President Anthony Valente, whose home also was financed with union money. Last week, with Klenert's resignation already in, the textile workers moved another step toward Meany's blessing. Emerging from...