Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best management-labor relationships in many a month. The Iron Law. In Seattle last week, giant Boeing and the Machinists Union reached an amicable settlement involving 41,000 workers on key defense contracts. Friendly accords have lately been reached in the rubber industry and the men's garment trade. In Pittsburgh, Steelworkers Union President David McDonald warned that he wants substantial agreement on a new steel contract by June 1, but no one seemed concerned by his declaration. Discussions have so far gone so smoothly that neither side looks for a strike. Though tension is greater in railroad negotiations...
Fred Gardner's story "Admiration" talks about the seamy side of garment worker society in the Depression. Gardner's hero is a Jewish gangster, with a heart, naturally. "Admiration" is not a world-shaking story, but Gardner writes Yiddish dialogue with accuracy and verve...
...seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each other. That shape am I, I felt, potentially...
...Jack Bleeck sold out to a couple of Manhattan restaurateurs and retired. The name is the same, but not the clientele. "Buyers and lacquered models from the garment center outnumber newspapermen," said the New York Times last week, with a trace of regret. "There are more dress designers than cartoonists. Some of the current waiters even speak unaccented English...
...salesman of dry-goods products. "I only knew how to say 'cheap, cheap' and then make finger signs to show the price," he says. What he lacked in English he more than made up in hard work. He soon opened a dressmaking factory in Manhattan's garment district, where an Arab was bound to get a small hello. He was homesick. Seeing how U.S. banks helped small businesses to get on their feet, Shoman decided that what the Arabs needed was their own bank-an enterprise that no Moslem had so far undertaken because of the Koran...