Word: jewells
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...watchmakers also pressured Congressmen to urge the President to uphold the Tariff Commission. Two years ago, the Tariff Commission had recommended a similar increase, but President Truman turned it down on the ground that the U.S. watch industry was in no real danger from Swiss competition. But now domestic jewel-watch production is off (an estimated 1,600,000 units this year, or half 1951 production), and employment has slumped from 12,000 in 1945 to some 8,000. Says Hamilton's President Arthur Sinkler: "The decline in domestic watch production has been so rapid in recent years that...
Political Peril. The President's decision on one current tariff case-the $58 million annual trade in Swiss watches and movements-will directly affect one Republican Senator up for reelection, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who has several watchmaking companies in his state. The Swiss make17-jewel movements for around $4, less than half the U.S. production costs, and outsell American makers nearly 4 to 1 (8,600,000 to 2,300,000 annually...
...early season comments, Penn's coach criticized his crew's timing. "We are a big crew," said Burke, "but Penn is not a 21-Jewel piece of precision mechanism." He might also have pointed out that his eight is one of the strongest rowing this season...
...trophy collection is no exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...
...Capote knew what the story was. "And I have a suspicion," Capote said later, "that John wasn't too clear about it." Surprisingly, Beat the Devil turns out to be a sort of screwball classic. It is the first movie since On Approval−that scintillating paste-jewel of a picture with Beatrice Lillie and Clive Brook−to torture the moviegoer by making him positively ache to laugh, and then deliberately forcing him to hold it and hold it until he is ready to scream...