Word: gumprecht
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...guarded secret (guesstimated 1937 peak: $1,000,000), but she readily admits that war has made a big hole in her sales. In some lines (particularly evening clothes, more than a third of her total sales), volume fell off 50-90% after Pearl Harbor, said her business manager, "Gumpy" Gumprecht, last week. Further pushed by a lease about to run out, and by the mounting shortage of fine fabrics (be fore the war, 80% of her materials used to come from abroad), it looked like a good time for her to retire to private life as Mrs. Saul Rosenstein, real...
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