Word: garment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Hopkins did not plan to quit work altogether. He promptly accepted the quasi-public position of czar of New York's garment industry, a well-paid ($25,000) job which requires no more attention than it got from his predecessor, New York City's onetime playboy Mayor Jimmy Walker...
...week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. . . . And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them...
Three New York detectives were watching the home of one Harry ("The Mustache") Rosen, suspected Fagin and fence for a gang of teen-age garment thieves. They spotted two youths entering and leaving, followed them to the home of Harvey Stemmer, a second racketeer. The detectives picked up the boys, grilled them at police headquarters. The youths got panicky and spilled a lurid story: they were members of the Brooklyn College basketball team, had pocketed bribes of $1,000 (to be split with three other teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged...
...will tighten its control over the supply of cloth to converters and clothing manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 4). Cloth will be released only for the types of clothing WPB wants produced, and within certain price ranges. Meanwhile, OPA will roll back prices to 1943 levels. Thus WPB can force garment manufacturers to switch their output back to inexpensive underwear, shirts, house dresses and other scarce articles...
...price rollbacks were greeted by cries of anguish from converters and garment manufacturers. But OPA stood firm, prepared to unlimber its big guns on the biggest evil of all in the textile price situation. OPA's target: the upgrading of cloth and garments by converters and by style experts who, by adding an extra print, or a fancy ruffle, have vaulted ceiling prices and upped their profits 800 to 1,400% since war began...