Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detail, and nimble fingers. Atlanta's Scripto Inc. employs women to put together its small pencils; the personnel chiefs at Burroughs Corp. believe that women can tolerate the tedious routine jobs that would drive men up the walls. The monotonous, repetitive jobs in the textile and garment plants are held almost wholly by women, and one-third of the nation's electronics gear is wired and assembled by them...
...away from home because I was unhappy," she says with no apparent sense of incongruity. She arrived in New York ("If you leave Baton Rouge, you don't go to Cleveland") and began working as a model on Seventh Avenue, but quit after two months. "The garment center is a dirty place," she says. "It's all sweaty palms, yelling and screaming. They are not nice people. They are crass and they have no manners...
...According to Alfons Wotschitzky, director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck, "The egglike objects just above [Artemis'] waist, formerly considered as multiple female breasts, are now correctly interpreted as ostrich eggs decorating her garment. Ostrich eggs, as a symbol of fertility, may still be found today in nearly every Greek village church...
Hyman allows his meritocratic "British whiz kids" easy rein, but has unshakable ideas about how far they should gallop. Viyella International leaves research and development on new yarns to such giants as Imperial Chemical or Courtaulds and leaves garment making, when it can, to the tailors. Hyman concentrates on the richly profitable middle ground of spinning and weaving fabrics, particularly Viyella. With this method and with a beady eye on business practices by his "postgraduate students," the professor has turned a $200,000 loss when he moved in into profits of $900,000 last year...
...conditions union have become apathetic. According to Reuther, labor must now turn to broad social causes, particularly the civil rights movement, if it is to recapture its former drive. But until now union participation in civil rights has been limited to a few large unions such as the Ladies Garment Workers, the United Auto Workers, and the Sleeping Car Porters as well as numerous locals. The executive council of the AFL-CIO, however, refused to put its prestige and influence behind the March on Washington...