Word: garmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member stations exchange programs and underwrite the network's wire costs. MBS needs only 72 employes (against 4,600 for NBC, 1,900 for CBS) to keep going. Its total operating expenses foot up to some $700,000. Its headquarters, on the edge of Manhattan's garment district, consist of a bleakly furnished floor in a dreary building which also houses its major Eastern outlet...
...Sixth Avenue Association's plan calls for redesigning the Avenue's 27 midtown blocks. Between two focuses-a gigantic garment center and a music center which would eventually replace Carnegie Hall-it would become the "Avenue of the Americas," a broad, tree-lined boulevard hedged with buildings housing the Manhattan interests of all the Latin-American republics...
...elsewhere, 3) a barrel-topped terminal for Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, 4) a health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances and combination sunken-garden and retail shopping areas...
...months ago Will Hays, head of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., keeper of Hollywood's celluloid morals, told picture makers to find some less revealing garment than the sweater in which to clothe their shapely ingenues. Betimes, Mr. Hays worked on the Hollywood dictionary. Some of his latest don'ts (the parentheses...
...claimed that wide pay increases it had won ranged from five to 40% (some millinery workers in Holyoke, Mass.). C.I.O. said pay increases it had won since Jan. 1 in packing houses, coal, steel, auto, electrical, aluminum, rubber (more than $1,000,000 at U.S. Rubber Co. alone), garment ($18,000,000), shipbuilding and other industries had added half a billion dollars annually to the country's wages. Government figures on average weekly earnings in the durable-goods industries were $33.50, up from $28.90 twelve months ago. In the nondurable manufacturing industries: $23.63, up from...