Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead for more than a year, London's Savile Row tailors last week issued a stern manifesto declaring that a different suit for each day of the week was an absolute minimum for the well-dressed man; in fact, added the statement from the trade paper Tailor and Cutter, eight was better than seven-to break the dreadful monotony of turning up each Monday in the same old tweed and each Thursday in the houndstooth check...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum confronts the strong-legged visitor with almost every sort of art object, from Egyptian soup spoons to a colonial American sugar cutter. But critics have often accused the Met of being overcool to 20th Century U.S. painting. Last week the Met answered its critics by putting on exhibit 200 of the best paintings from its collection of U.S. art since...
Helped by a 3½-knot ebbing tide and an 8-mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...
Small Beginnings. What helped Tele King's remarkable performance was the know-how which Russian-born Louis Pokrass had developed in two previous careers. As a garment cutter in Manhattan's fiercely competitive dress industry, he had learned the importance of unit costs, and how they could be cut by mass production. As a big liquor wholesaler and distributor, he had also mastered the techniques of selling and distribution so well that he claimed to be grossing $20 million a year in 1946, when he sold out for $3,000,000. He felt well able to risk...
...took the jury only 70 minutes to decide. As the twelve middle-aged jurors filed back to the jury box, one of them caught Mrs. Sander's anxious eye, grinned broadly and tipped her a reassuring wink. Then Foreman Louis C. Cutter rose to pronounce the verdict: "Not guilty...