Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever there is opportunity, there is anxiety: it is just as severe in the ivied halls of research institutions as it is in the garment district?or in some Government offices. And it is far more severe than it used to be on farms. Big business, on the other hand, is not, as often described, a single pail of anxiously writhing worms. Some giant corporations have become "settled societies" of their own, in which the rungs of the promotion ladder are neatly numbered and everybody knows when he may have his chance to step up. But in advertising, communications...
anding in the middle of New York's garment district, Manhattan ter has lent its shelter and its ellent acoustics to a wide variety adical movements. Earl Browder to hold forth there in the hey- of the Party; both the Fur kers and the staunchly antiinist Garment Workers met e to inveigh against the bosses, inst capitalism, and against each r. Even the murals on the walls quare-jawed, muscular proletar- "building the industry of rica" -- call to mind the days tenement-dwellers transcend- the squalidness of their daily while singing "We Shall Not Moved...
...Among the members: Union Presidents George Meany (A.F.L.-C.I.O.), Walter Reuther (Auto Workers), David McDonald (Steel workers), David Dubinsky (Ladies' Garment Workers); Company Chief Executives Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM), Henry Ford II (Ford Motor), J. Spencer Love (Burlington Industries), Joseph Block (Inland Steel); President Clark Kerr of the University of California...
...walls ought to be raised against foreign cloth. The United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International has organized a "Buy American" campaign aimed at retailers and the public, distributes handbills before some stores that sell chiefly imported headgear. Last year the 1,200-member local of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Roanoke, Va. struck the Kenrose Manufacturing Co. Inc., which had just opened a new plant in Ireland. The union won a company agreement to set aside part of its Irish profits to compensate workers for any wage loss resulting in the Virginia plant after two years...
...spring, she will buy one wonderful suit. She has never worn mink. She wears a wool coat over a suit or dress for lunch or dinners. She has one or two evening dresses-classic and simple and terribly chic, not startling." In the aftermath of the battle of the garment district, Jackie has vowed to buy only American clothes in the future, and will resort to muumuus if it will save Jack from embarrassment. Says she: "I am determined that my husband's Administration-this is a speech I find myself making in the middle of the night...