Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international deals that now include licensing arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production know-how. Joyce's British partners, for example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce has built his foreign income until...
...make long-range commitments until they could see the U.S. wage pattern. Nobody would know that until the steel wage dispute was settled. For both Steel and Labor, the crucial fight was for public support, and that would be decided in the hearings before the President's three-man fact-finding board...
Ford went right to work. His Middle East man, Walter McKee, after talks with Israeli purchasing agents, sounded out the possibilities of an assembly plant near Haifa. The plant would import U.S. foremen and technicians to train unskilled Israeli labor in U.S. production techniques, wherever possible use Israel-made goods for parts...
Died. George Moran, 67, straight man of the richly nostalgic radio and vaudeville black-face comedy team of Moran & Mack (The Two Black Crows); of a stroke; in Oakland, Calif. The act, belly laugh of the Ziegfeld Follies in the '20s, folded in 1934 when Charles E. Mack was killed in an automobile accident...
...stay in the U.S. is a stormy one, highlighted by: 1) a tug of war with a string of overaged strongmen (including Primo Camera, Phil ("Swedish Angel") Olafsson, and Man Mountain Dean); 2) an ear-splitting rampage in which Joe reduces the nightclub to kindling; and 3) the lurid rescue of a tot in a nightie from a burning orphanage...