Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Neiman's still caters to the new rich, it does not forget that the bulk of its business comes from those who spend only $250 a year. With the $2,000 dresses, it also carries dresses for as little as $9.95. For all customers, Stanley Marcus started weekly fashion lectures, and the women who jammed in have accepted his quietly authoritative dicta. "Dallas women don't want to be that overworked creature, the glamour girl. They just want to be themselves-feminine, nice-looking and, above all, individual." This means an air of restrained elegance known...
...manufacturers, like Manhattan's Henry Rosenfeld, have proved that the garment industry need not be so inefficient, that mass production can pay off. Rosenfeld sells 2,500,000 well-designed dresses a year, all retailing from $14.95 to $35. His secrets: 1) buy in bulk; 2) break down dressmaking into separate, specialized operations, e.g., collar-making, pocket-making, buttonhole-making; 3) keep design simple and smart...
...magazines were arriving in Metz on schedule but were being sidetracked by faulty freight handling. With the help of the local Stars and Stripes men, this problem was soon ironed out. In another case, faster delivery to Germany was solved in Paris. Previously the magazines were shipped in bulk to Frankfurt, where mail is sorted for the U.S. zone. Perret arranged to have issues of TIME sacked and addressed in Paris for individual APO designations, thereby saving further handling and delay in Frankfurt...
...them. The U.S. had plainly said it would not defend South Korea, and it was in no military position to do so. Total defeat in Korea was narrowly averted. Victory began-and with it arose a confusion about the U.N. goals. The U.S. was running the war, supplying the bulk of the troops, and to it belonged the main responsibility for defining the objectives of the war. When its policymakers failed, the voices of the . U.S. allies began to make themselves felt. As MacArthur, intent on victory, approached the Yalu, the Chinese, no doubt encouraged by dissension...
...burned 20,000 liters of gasoline, set off 5,000 tons of ammunition and explosives. They seized 200 machine guns and automatic rifles, 1,000 light machine guns, six Molotov trucks, engines, machinery and a stock of penicillin. They demolished the Ky Cung River bridges, across which flows the bulk of the 3,000 tons a month of supplies which Red China sends to Ho Chi Minh...