Word: garments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garment Jungle (Columbia) exposes the bare facts of life in the dress business. As the film begins, a wealthy dress manufacturer (Lee J. Cobb) leaps at a shapely model and rips the frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that...
...COST HOUSES for Puerto Rico will be built by Rockefeller brothers and David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Union will buy $2,600,000 in U.S.-backed mortgages on 400 San Juan houses to be built by Rockefeller brothers' International Basic Economy Corp. Rockefellers will build more than 5,000 units, sell three-bedroom house...
...raincoat must be tired-looking, and to be correct should have grimy rings around the collar and cuffs, and perhaps a torn pocket. The raincoat is to be worn to excess indoors, at Hayes-Bick's, for example, or in lecture, since besides the elements this garment is meant to fend off the hostilities of a mundane world, and by sheer yardage at that. A mutation in the foul-weather line is the army-surplus trenchcoat; while it does not have the buckles and straps and rings of a good Burberry, it is distinctively green and of a suitably rude...
...Winter Garment of Repentance fling ... --OMAR KHAIYAM...
...John W. Field, 42, treasurer of Warner Brothers Co., famed foundation-garment manufacturer (1956 sales: more than $36 million), was named president, succeeding his father John Field, 70, who will become chairman of the board. After graduating from Yale ('37), Field tried his hand at journalism, became national affairs editor of LIFE. In 1946 he yielded to family pleadings, returned to Warner...