Word: garments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
...place for it in Chicago or any other place in America." And from Manhattan's Dave Dubinsky, who had been individually applauded by the Communists in convention, came the hardest blow to their "labor-peoples' antimonopoly" project. Said the president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers in a comment that could be repeated by many another U.S. labor leader: "We have fought them since they first appeared on the American scene, and we shall continue to fight them...
...Japanese stores as well at 50½. Responding to U.S. protests in 1956, Japan switched to exporting dresses. But dress sales rose from half a million at year's beginning to nearly 2,000,000 at year's end, slicing into the markets of the edgy U.S. garment industry. Japan tried "voluntary" export curbs to solve the problem. But many Japanese exporters bypassed them by shipping to Hong Kong and "exporting" from there...
...Whiz. In Philadelphia, after a state liquor-control agent testified that Stripteuse Julie Gibson concluded her "Dance of the Bashful Bride" wearing only a G string, Julie assured the judge that she had never seen or heard of such a garment and had ended her undulations modestly draped in mesh panties, declared with indignation: "I have never worn anything less...
...Sept. 10 et ante). Two were sentenced to five years in federal prison, the other to two years. Scheduled for trial this week: Mob Chief Johnny Dio (real name: Dioguardi), 42, charged with plotting the attack to keep Riesel from testifying in a grand-jury investigation of trucking-and garment-industry rackets...