Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour fight. Willing to sell other holdings, he argued calmly but insistently that he ought to be allowed to keep his $1,440,000 worth of stock in the textile firm of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., which makes millions of dollars' worth of uniform cloth for the armed forces. "... I am steeped in sentiment and tradition with respect to the company that bears my father's name," he said. Requiring him to give up the stock, he contended, would establish "an important principle and precedent," which would "have a long and serious adverse effect on the willingness...
...case than Wilson's is that of Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, a textile manufacturer, who was appointed Secretary of the Army. His firm, J. P. Stevens & Co. of New York City, does a third (about $125 million a year) of its business with the Defense Department, mostly in cloth for uniforms. It is a family firm. If he sold his stock, management might pass to other hands, the firm might have to be completely reorganized, with consequences that would extend far beyond any personal sacrifice Stevens might have to make. The Stevens firm, however, sells to the Government...
...Chicago told about its portable "Electro-Sonic" washing machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy jets through the tightest-woven cloth. There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes. The machine, says Fairbanks Ward can wash its own weight (14 lbs.) in clothes at one time...
...Richard Nixon's cocker spaniel, Checkers . . . Millions of American dog owners were carried away by the image of Checkers' sad eyes pleading: "My poor master," "mortgages," "old car," "policy loan," "Republican cloth coat," etc. They rushed to vote for Nixon. The resulting landslide for the Republicans, including the election of Eisenhower, was natural, if coincidental...
Bing and Bob, dressed in kilts, sing one number called Hoot Mon. Dorothy Lamour models a succession of silk and cloth-of-gold sarongs designed by Hollywood's Edith Head. There is also a shipwreck, a headhunters' ceremonial, and an erupting volcano. Road to Bali does not always run a smooth comedy course, but it has some diverting detours...