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By the Hearth. Evita spends $40,000 or more a year just for dresses from Paris' top designers.*In 1950, she ordered gowns from Balmain, Dior, Fath and Rochas. She has the furs of a czarina, the jewels of a maharani. Last year Perón took a fancy...
¶Members of Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen, who a week earlier had balked at unloading inbound cargoes of Russian furs and crab meat, refused to touch 2,000 cases of Polish hams aboard two American freighters at New York docks.
In Boston, a few days later, dockers refused to put a second shipment of crab meat into the unloading nets. On a third ship in New York, the workers left $138,888 worth of Russian furs in the hold.
It didn't matter to the longshoremen that it was the British, not the Russians, who stood to lose on the crab meat (which had been foisted on the British by Russia in place of promised timber). Similarly, the furs had already been bought by U.S. furriers; Russia wouldn...
Consumer Goods. The bill not only wiped out reductions in excise taxes on furs, jewelry, leather goods, cosmetics, refrigerators, etc., which the House had approved June 29 in a slaphappy, early-Korea mood, but added new excise taxes on television sets and home-freeze units and closed old tax loopholes...