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Palmer described how depressing it was, visiting New York's garment district, to see that the only jobs Negroes could get "were as janitors, and pushing garment racks around...
...retains farm training and home economics (Mobley's lobby saw to that), but it introduces a new flexibility. Under the terms of the bill, states and municipalities could count as "vocational agriculture" such related industries as food processing, and include in "home economics" such jobworthy skills as commercial garment making. At least 25% of the money provided for in the bill would go to "area vocational education schools"-well-equipped centers offering modern skills to anyone, teen-ager or adult, who is not attending a regular high school. The U.S. already has 300 such area schools, teaching...
...registered Aberdeen Angus beef cattle; an IBM machine tells many farmers, on learning the size and location of their farms, what crops to plant, what fertilizers to use and how many laborers to hire. Computers help to design comfortable brassieres for the garment industry, and have so highly automated many warehouses down to the billing and shipping that Rose Marie Reid swimsuits has cut by 75% the time it takes to ship a suit after getting an order...
Junpei is a hobo full of heart and uncommon ingenuity. He wears a remarkable garment fitted out with pockets for everything: tools, utensils, pots, food packets, soy sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although...
...French garment manufacturers who export to Germany sell a higher proportion of jumbo sizes (16 to 18) there than anywhere else. In most other countries, also, well-buttressed women steer clear of such revealing clothes as stretch ski pants; in West Germany, according to the world-girdling Bogner stretch-pants concern, there is a steady demand for slipcover sizes...