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...Charles Street MTA stop and is well worth a browse. Emmi has assembled a unique collection of and novelty gifts from all over world, and is terrible excited above authentic Bauernkittel or peasant blouses just in from Switzerland. Emmi charges just $12.40 for this embroidered, royal blue, parka-like garment which is still worn as a native costume in Switzerland. Ideal for skiing and sailing, it also makes a fine windbreaker to wear to class over sweaters...
...match the office boom. Slum clearance projects have been marching through Harlem and the Lower East Side; low-cost housing has been supplied by organizations along the lines of the cluster of 22-story cooperative apartment houses recently erected west of Eighth Avenue by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. But the middle class has not been served so well by private builders...
...claim that his union was discriminating against its Negro and Puerto Rican members was too much for David Dubinsky, 70, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for the past three decades, and white-haired patriarch of New York's Liberal Party. Before a House subcommittee investigating the charge of racism against the I.L.G.W.U., Dubinsky admitted that proportionately few of the 100,000 Negro and Puerto Rican members of his 450,000-man union have become part of the hierarchy. He explained that they were still gaining necessary experience at lower levels...
Pacemaking Jonathan Logan also is a leader in the technology of garment making. Its factory at Spartanburg, S.C., is in a mechanical sense the industry's first "integrated" plant. "Raw wool in one door and finished dresses out the other," beams Schwartz...
...moribund Butte Copper & Zinc Co., took over its assets, earned $2,700,000 after taxes. Through Butte, Jonathan Logan got a listing on the New York Exchange (current trading symbol: JOL), became the first ladies' ready-to-wear maker to make the Big Board. The highly competitive garment business had been suspicious of "going public" because that requires a company to publish intimate financial details. But after Schwartz showed that public listing also opens better lines of credit, there was a rush from Seventh Avenue to Wall Street. Schwartz's nearest competitor, Bobbie Brooks ('61 sales...