Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Central Labor Council have heard depressing testimony from Chinatown residents about working conditions in the district. Last week, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,* labor opened a campaign of pickets, sanctions and the threat of boycott against eight Chinatown sewing shops and a contracting firm. Although the goal is not immediate unionization, the 25,000-member culinary workers union is waiting in the wings, and a labor spokesman called the drive "the opening gun in a campaign we hope will eventually end substandard wages and conditions in Chinatown shops, stores, factories and bars...
...swinging example of her work has been published jointly by the United Church Press and the Roman Catholic firm of Herder and Herder. Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book is a 50-page volume of mod meditations filled with brilliant swatches of color and eye-catching graphics. Most of Sister Corita's serigraphs use kaleidoscopic excerpts from advertising slogans blown up and tossed across the pages, often upside down, sideways or in mirror images. Accompanying them are quotations that range from Hasidic folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse...
They are known as "alligators" in the U.S. and "crocodiles" in 84 other countries. By any nationality or nomenclature, the French sports shirts, with a familiar-looking reptile embroidered on them, sell exceedingly well. Last year the Paris-based firm of Chemise Lacoste sold 1,700,000 of the shirts, 50% in France and the remainder in the crocodile-alligator world beyond. This month, as Lacoste's factories reopen after a vacation layoff, the order backlog has reached 200,000, and Chemise Lacoste has also gotten an unexpected bonus. Catherine Lacoste, 22-year-old daughter of Founder Rene Lacoste...
Getting Itchy. Katz has his eye on a bigger package. In 1960, he paid $1,700,000 for the 91-year-old Massachusetts firm of LePage's, which makes glue and adhesive tape. He has since streamlined the operation, cutting out unprofitable lines, and LePage's is now in the black. Last year Papercraft entered a new field-that of vinyl tablecloths and place mats that look like lace-by buying out the Eastern Industrial Plastics Corp., since renamed American Universal Plastics...
...just to make sure that overseas bartenders-turned-publicans learn how to mind their milds and bitters, the firm stands ready with a stable of 20 trained barmaids to "train local staffs in typical English fashion." According to Partner Shafran, they come in two styles-"the big-breasted, gin-breath barmaid in a tight black dress, and the pink-cheeked, lusty but innocent type...