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...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...
From a million customers in 1952, Quelle has won so many fans that last year it shipped 16,200,000 packages to 76 countries. It operates twelve garment and assembly plants, 75 order offices, its own credit bank, and branch offices in Austria, Sweden, Luxembourg, Canada and the U.S. It also runs seven department stores for those who want the price advantage of Quelle without the catalogue, plans to open three more this year. By shrewd purchasing and low-cost production, Quelle keeps the prices of most of its 22,000 items 15% to 20% below those of other retailers...
Withering Comment. Prisunic got started back in 1931 as a frank copy of Woolworth's, became popular with working-class families but not with chic Parisians, whose most withering comment on a shoddy garment was, "That must come from Prisunic." The chain lifted its sights after World War II and spied a better market. As the American self-service idea began to catch on in Europe, Prisunic opened its own large supermarchès. Today it operates 270 stores in France and 34 in former French possessions, employs 15,000 people, and last year surged above $500 million...
...difference, really, between knitting a boat and knitting a bra cup. The boat is about the same shape, just bigger that's all." He is hard at work on a machine to knit glass-fiber yarn into streamlined boat hulls up to 40 ft. long. "You put the garment into a mold," says Macqueen, "and plasticize it. Hey, presto! You have a yacht...