Word: garment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer depends directly on its basic industries-oil, oranges, motion pictures and aircraft. It lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester, makes more furniture than Grand Rapids, assembles more automobiles than any other city but Detroit, makes more tires than any other city but Akron. It is a garment center (bathing suits, slacks, sports togs) second only to New York. It makes steel in its backyard. Its port handles more tonnage than San Francisco...
...station is backed by the 400,000 members of the wealthy, politically potent International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, headed by New-Dealing David Dubinsky. Its purpose, in the words of Frederick Umhey, I.L.G.W.U.'s executive secretary and president of WFDR Broadcasting Corp.: "To utilize radio as a vehicle for labor to tell its story...
David Dubinsky, president of Manhattan's powerful, well-run International Ladies Garment Workers. Dubinsky raised a lot of money, paid for several Truman broadcasts...
Shoulder to Shoulder. One hundred cops were put on the case, padding patiently from one building to the next in the garment center, questioning 400 people. The great I.L.G.W.U. rose in its wrath. It offered $25,000 for the conviction of Willie's murderers, ordered 65,000 dressmakers to quit work for four hours to attend his funeral...
...content. Thinly painted in tempera and oil glazes on pressed-wood panels, they all had the vague shimmer of reflections in a forest pool. Their subject was almost invariably girls, mainly girls who spend their nights in Brooklyn and Queens rooming houses and their days working in the garment lofts, offices and novelty factories around Manhattan's Union Square, where Bishop has her studio...