Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another British maker of goods with a steady U.S. demand upped his prices anywhere from...
Most of the work of Tournai's great years was unsigned, the loving labor of anonymous monks and artisans identity had been lost through the centuries. But a few big names survived for the town to boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...
...successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...
Caught in a tight pair of Palm Beach pants earlier this year, the Goodall Co., largest U.S. maker of men's summer suits, suffered some embarrassing rips. It made many retailers mad when a sudden cut in the retail price of Palm Beach suits (fixed by Fair Trade laws in 45 states) forced merchants to lose profits on the suits in stock (TIME, July 18). Last week, Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward was confident that he could patch everything up. He had a brand-new kind of Palm Beach cloth which, he predicted, would revolutionize...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the hair of both twins had been styled and set by a professional hairdresser, after one had given herself a home wave. Chicago's Toni Co., maker of home permanent wave kits, will restyle its advertising...