Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every practical advantage of the ordinary zipper, and in addition is superior to it from the standpoint of good taste because no metal shows--the units of the fastener are concealed by a grosgrain ribbon that harmonizes with the fabric of the trousers and is guaranteed to outlast the garment...
...life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits are shut outside. There is no life here. There can never be life save for that antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of this particular formation of earth, which in the twilight combines to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its god-like simplicity. Here is an ancient permanence that even the sea cannot claim. For the sea changes, the fields change, the heavens...
...President Roosevelt today ordered a 36-hour week in the cotton garment manufacturing industry and pledged speedy enforcement of all NRA codes in the future...
...signing the executive order reducing hours from 40 to 36 in the cotton garment industry effective Dec. 1, the chief executive specified that weekly wages be maintained at their present level...
Last August, President Roosevelt ordered the cotton garment industry to down working hours from 40 to 36 per week, up wages 10%, beginning Oct. 1. Protesting that they could not afford the change, manufacturers hotly threatened to shut down rather than obey what amounted to a unique White House command. Last week, with the order's effective date only four days off, shirtmakers announced definite plans to shut down, throw out 25,000 workers, whereas 50,000 cotton garment workers were primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready...