Word: fasteners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hereil, 50, a bluff, breezy businessman who operates his nationalized company with a free-enterprising flair. "Private or public company," says Hereil, "I've got the same philosophy -to make money for our shareholders." When Hereil took over in 1946, he knew little about planes beyond how to fasten the seat belt. He had started out as a liquidator of ailing companies, by World War II had dealt with 800 sick businesses ranging from a concert hall to bakeries and grocery stores...
...lives and collect the earnings of the 500 De Walletjes whores. The estimate of daily customers ranges from 7,000 to 10,000. Very often the instant a client has left the stuffy, overheated ground-floor room, the pimp will lower a rope to which the prostitute must fasten the money she has earned. One madam, named Aunt Miep. would get outraged if she heard a girl wasting time talking to a client, and would stamp her crippled leg on the floor and scream: "Get to work...