Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadium, with the conference title at stake. Cool and confident, Quarterback Unitas whipsawed the Forty-Niner defense by sending fleet Halfback Lennie Moore to the outside, barreling Fullback Alan ("The Horse") Ameche up the middle. But as always the big man was Unitas himself. Passing in the calm lee of Tackle Jim Parker (6 ft. 3 in., 275 lbs.), Unitas threw for three touchdowns to bring his season's total to 29, break the N.F.L. record held since 1943 by the Bears' Sid Luckman. When his receivers were covered, Unitas bolted 12 yds. for a fourth touchdown...
...textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments...
Three Shifts. While the bulk of the goods is still produced by industrious Chinese pieceworkers in cramped cubby holes and back rooms, more and more are coming from new, modern factories such as Lee's. He employs 5,000 workers, v. 150 when he started, has one factory running three full shifts a day, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and sewing cot ton garments for export. Last August he added a new factory to weave 1,000,000 yds. of cloth per month, cut 60,000 gar ments a day. His own garment exports...
Others have prospered along with Lee, and the Hong Kong garment industry to day has estimated assets worth $200 million. Exports to the U.S. (chiefly brassières, nightgowns, pajamas, blouses and men's slacks and shirts) are expected to be more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...
...unduly heavy quantities which would wreck a specific American industry." To many a successful Hong Kong Chinese garmentmaker, voluntary curbs seem to be a high price to pay for a success built with little U.S. aid in the face of stiff Japanese and European competition. Many are balking, though Lee argues that the industry "has grown too fast, must discipline itself" for the long-term benefit...