Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein's" -but in due course the Rosenstein label became too valuable to hide. Today in Manhattan, she sells to three or four other shops, but rights to her label belong exclusively to Bonwit Teller...
...Kruse's attempt to label the present blackout in German education as "handicaps" makes me wonder just how much he comprehends the real situation, as critical, broad-minded and unbiased people...
...publicized but even more enlightening Washington lecture. They were told that WPB has a new conversion policy: 100% real war production for the skilled big fellows, concentration of minimum, essential, civilian production in the smaller plants. Competitive tangles will have to be ironed out later (perhaps via a "Victory" label for all such civilian production). Meanwhile, the little businessman in some industries, at least, has a new lease on life...
...Russians are a brave people with very bad table manners. . . . General MacArthur's Army didn't quit, isn't quitting, won't quit-and no son-of-a-bitch is going to label him a coward and go uncalled for it. ... We have been in awe of the Russians' fortitude in ordering the earth scorched as they fell back, and we frankly said so. But . . . Manila is not Philadelphia...
Collectors were green-eyed when they saw the only known piece of furniture to carry the label of Newport Cabinetmaker Edmund Townsend, the only known carved chair to carry the famous name of its maker Benjamin Randolph; they consoled themselves by saying the collection had cost too much, that Karolik had been taken in on prices even though he had top-notch material. Scholars were excited to find as many as a dozen pieces ascribed to the lesser-known Boston maker John Seymour, whose Satiny finishes and tricky inlay patterns made his furniture more elegant than that of most contemporaries...