Word: carders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first birthday, a junket to Moscow was scarcely needed to call attention to Roy Thomson's magazine section. It is now a brightly edited supplement, featuring such bylines as Ian Fleming and Lord Attlee, and the photography of Henri Carder-Bresson and Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon. The Sunday Times circulation is up 150,000 to 1,166,000, making it by far the largest quality Sunday newspaper in London...
What the Rothschilds are to banking, the Carders have been to jewelry. Descended from a metal craftsman who worked for Louis XV, the Carder family opened its first jewelry store in Paris in 1847, by the early years of this century had prospered sufficiently to set younger sons up in business in London and New York. Cartier's of Manhattan, which has been corporately independent of its Paris and London cousins since 1919, is more conservative than Tiffany's and more luxurious than Van Cleef & Arpels. Equally famed for custom-crafted goods at extravagantly high prices...
...Manhattan announced its biggest sale yet. At a price estimated to run between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000, a specially formed investment syndicate purchased from the Cartier family a major share of the store's stock. With the traditional reserve of the society jeweler, Carder's would not discuss terms of the deal, would only say that Claude Cartier, 37, a nephew of the founder of Cartier's of Manhattan, will stay on as president of the company...
...Better Carder. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed the first major improvement in cotton-carding equipment in 60 years. Offered on a royalty-free licensing basis to the cotton industry, the new 300-lb. rotary carder replaces one bulky 1,100-lb. carding flat, which now wastes 3% of cotton fibers. With virtually no waste, the new carder promises to save $40 million a year, or put another way, add 135 million lbs. of cotton annually to the mounting cotton surpluses...
...grew; meanwhile, his mother was a dancer in The King and I. As much as any of the Chinese in Flower Drum Song, R. & H. believe in tradition, have gone to the same opening-night party for 15 years (given by a friend, Jules Glaenzer, vice president of Carder's). On tour they still receive ceremonial visits from long-married and matronly chorus girls who were in one of their early shows...