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...them into gunny sacks, dumped them into a couple of rickshas. Singing gay Cantonese songs to drown out any possible outcry, the men pulled the rickshas to an empty house in a desolate part of Macao,where they opened up the sacks and retrussed the two youths. They wound cloth tape around their heads mummy fashion, leaving space only for nostrils and mouths. They replaced the oranges with unshelled walnuts, stuffed their ears with cotton, and bound their limbs with ropes and electric wires which they nailed to the floor...
...publishers of London's Penguin Books, who have sold more than 180 million paperbacks at 10? to 70? apiece, are working up something special for art lovers: a 48-volume Pelican History of Art, bound in cloth covers and priced at $8.50 a volume. The new series, to be published over the next twelve years, will replace the only two comprehensive histories of art in existence-one in French, one in German and both now out of date...
...built. Starting in 1926 with two family woolen plants and a few hundred workers, he added five factories, built employment to 13,200, working 1,800 looms and 80,000 spindles. His factories last year spun out 23 million lbs. of yarn and about 14 million yards of woven cloth. Among Marzotto's other enterprises: a marble-producing plant, a sugar factory, a 6,177-acre model estate on the Adriatic in northern Italy at Portogruaro, equipped with 75 tractors and a small tanker which chugs up irrigation canals firing broadsides of fertilizer on to the growing crops...
...modernize their methods, then placed orders with six mills for their entire output during certain months. The success of the whole plan, he believed, would depend on three rules: 1) buy abroad only what can not be obtained in the U.S.; 2) buy only in areas where the cloth has been made by craftsmen for years (i.e., broadcloth in Normandy, worsteds in northern France); 3) insist that mills pay at least 75? an hour to their employees...
...estimates that he has created steady employment for 2,400 European textile workers, and has produced a $1,200,000 payroll increase in France alone. It has also paid off in another way. By applying U.S. mass-production methods, Schuman's suppliers are able to weave top-quality cloth for him at $2 to $4 less a yard than the European wholesale price. The plan has also added $3,700,000 in new business to Schuman's gross, and to handle it he has hired 240 more U.S. workers. Impressed with these results, other San Francisco competitors have...