Word: garmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime shipping clerk in Manhattan's swarming garment center, Rosenfeld worked up to a $40,000 salary running someone else's clothing business, Bedford Dress, Inc., before he decided to strike out for himself with $50,000 in savings. The time, 1942, was a bad one for a newcomer to break into the clothing field. But Henry was lucky and shrewd. Dressmakers had heard that OPA planned to reduce prices on dress materials by imposing ceilings. So nickel-wise manufacturers wiggled out of tentative contracts with suppliers. Rosenfeld was smarter-he took a loss by accepting every yard...
Hoarding for Safety. We arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...
Another enthusiastic booster of the seminars is Sam Janis, business agent of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (A.F. of L.) in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the report he will submit to the faculty, he plans to discuss "Trends in the Location of the Women's Garment Industry...
...37th Street Gromyko turned west through a block of millinery establishments, part of the great U.S. garment industry created largely by men & women who sprang from Gromyko's part of the world, and from a lowlier station in life than his had been...
Street of Failure. If the garment district was a reminder of U.S. opportunity, this part of Sixth Avenue (which no self-respecting New Yorker could bring himself to call the Avenue of the Americas) was a monument to American failure. No hour of the day or night found bar-lined Sixth Avenue without a few drunken men & women; no upper Sixth Avenue crowd ever looked happy or even gay. At the Miami Theater coming attractions were Primitive Love and Guilty Parents. Even...