Word: corseted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in his 1,049th game with the Detroit Tigers, 30-year-old Hank Greenberg smashed out two home runs, drove in a third run to lick the New York Yankees 7-to-4, then turned in his uniform. Next morning, in an old corset factory in downtown Detroit, Henry Greenberg, baseball's highest-paid player ($55,000 a year), was inducted into the U.S. Army along with 300 other Detroit draftees...
...exits. Schuck was near the service door when three bandits came charging down the stairs. He opened fire, they fired back; Schuck toppled over with a bullet in his leg. The gunmen scattered. One commandeered the car of Mrs. Samuel Solomon, who was on her way to a corset shop, lunged into Manhattan's heavy crosstown traffic. Klika, charging after him, jumped on the running board. Just as he did, the gunman put his gun to his head and shot himself. He was identified as Lyman Finnell, ex-convict and parole violator. Several blocks away another of the thugs...
...never been the dress industry's long suit. For years it flourished in a seller's market; it still inhabits an economic Bohemia where success often depends 50% on talent in designing, 49% on luck and 1% on managerial skill. A shop can be started on a corset string; given a loft and a few cheap machines, anybody can try it. Although dressmaking is Manhattan's biggest manufacturing industry ($349,482,204 in 1939), its units are pygmies: only 60 firms gross as much as $1,000,000 annually. Some 22% of the companies fail...
...birthday cake with a pair of fire axes. From the ceiling fell hundreds of balloons filled with capsules to be exchanged for boxes of candy, miniature radios, other favors. During an absurd game of Truth or Consequences, Heavyweight Lou Nova ran a foot race, impeded by a hastily donned corset. The most implausible feature of the entertainment came when, as another Consequence, bland, dinner-jacketed Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (in front of 1,500 invitees) was prevailed upon to thrust his head into a golden canary cage and allow himself to be fed crackers while he quavered...
Plodding picket lines have become so common of late years that the average U. S. citizen scarcely cocks an eye at them. But Detroit last week saw a picket line that tied up traffic. Up & down in front of dingy American Lady Corset Co. factory, in freezing weather, paraded six women. Four, husky and broad-beamed, wore corsets over their street clothes. The other two, streamlined company models, just wore corsets. What they were demanding: a closed shop, higher wages. All they had got at week's end: publicity, three fan letters, and a one-dollar bill from...