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Home in Frustration. Retailers everywhere in the U.S. still face the probability of late deliveries-perhaps even sales-losing shortages-of Easter finery. Reason: at least 125,000 New York garment workers were unable to reach their cutting tables and sewing machines at the height of the seasonal production rush. Some buyers in town for spring-fashion showings went home in frustration; others turned to the growing garment centers in Dallas and Los Angeles. Eastern buyers, many there for the first time, helped swell the attendance by 33% at California Market Week in Los Angeles. In Denver, one store canceled...
When John V. Lindsay became Mayor of New York City on January 1, the strike deadline laid down by the Transport Workers was only five hours away and negotiations had already been broken off. Twelve days later, Wall Street businessmen are still bitch-hiking to work, and garment center laborers aren't getting to their jobs...
Threatening Child. Koratron's founder, San Francisco Garment Maker Joseph Koret, came upon the permanent-crease process in 1956 while searching for a way to keep creases in the pleats of his women's sportswear. By coating fabrics with a resin solution and then baking them in 325° ovens, Koret's chemists found that they could "memorize" a crease into most kinds of material. As a result, 85% of men's slacks in the U.S. are now Koratron-treated, and the permanent crease is becoming a feature of everything from bathing trunks to blue jeans...
...Greenberg, 57, a Harvard Law graduate and onetime New York Daily Mirror reporter who was hired because of the policing experience he gained as the wartime Office of Price Administration's enforcement director. The com pany collects 2% on all Koratron-treated material, then another 1% on every garment. It requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising campaign and a quality-control program in which Koratron technicians wash, pull, rip and rub samples to make certain that they crease as they should. The company moves swiftly against patent...
Boston wears a different cloak at Christmas. Not new, certainly, for if ever New Boston is forgotten, it is now, but different somehow. The Maiden Aunt of American Cities takes out her warm old familiar garment, primps her grey hair, and marches defiantly into the cold. She tramps down from Beacon Hill, shops in one of the gaudy New Boston stores and many of the old smaller ones, then just as quietly slips back through the park, leaving cries of crass commercialism to others. So familiar is her path, so unobtrusive, that you may not have noticed her. Your Christmas...