Word: loft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day at noon, the shmooze begins. All over Manhattan's grimy Garment Center, in its warrens of disheveled one-room "shops" crammed into loft buildings and slatternly tenements, the sharp whir of sewing machines stops. Workers and bosses pour onto the sidewalk and gather in clots at the curb under the glowering sun. Above the bray of automobile horns, hunched, rumpled men shout in Yiddish, Italian and English, leaning against the clogged trucks, stepping out of the way of rattling racks of dresses without missing a verb or a gesture...
Albert M. Greenfield, onetime Republican and heavy contributor to the Vare machine, who switched allegiance in 1932. Born in the Ukraine in 1887, Greenfield is one of the biggest real-estate operators in the country, controls banks, department stores, a candy store chain (Loft), theaters and several of Philadelphia's big hotels. He is active in both Christian and Jewish charities, a prime promoter of National Brotherhood Week. He was vice chairman of Johnson's fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes...
...union, for all its immense power and prestige, had felt some of the old troublesome signs: hoodlums had walked into the offices of the union and beat up three organizers; pickets had been slugged. Massed in the street between the towering loft buildings on West 35th Street (called "Chinatown" from the days when "coolie wages" were paid there by the makers of low-priced dresses), 25,000 union dressmakers listened one day as their leaders issued a warning to the remaining unorganized employers: the union would not tolerate the return of gangsters like the late Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter and Jacob...
Four Men at a Booth. After that, for a while, the gorillas lay low. They were on the prowl one hot afternoon last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...
Behind this singing commercial perpetrated by Robert Hall Clothes, Inc., lies the solid substance of a merchandising phenomenon which has made other U.S. retailers green-eyed with envy. In eight years, Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. has mushroomed from a single store in an old loft in Waterbury, Conn, to a chain of 75. The stores have no fancy fronts or Hollywood interiors. But they do have men's suits & coats from $19.95 to $38.95 and women's dresses from $2.95 to $10.95. Their low overhead is a fact: they are in the cheapest possible quarters. By slashing markup...