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...before taxes last year: $77.5 million, on sales of $2.3 billion, plus banking and insurance operations. Rival Mitsui, which reported $2.8 billion in sales and $85 million in profits in 1957, controls 24 major firms with 195 important subsidiaries, produces 25% of Japan's coal, 88% of its nylon, 33% of its autos, 41% of its paper...
...Adams called Federal Trade Commission Chairman Edward F. Howrey to ask for the source of an FTC complaint against Goldfine for putting a "90% wool, 10% vicuña" label on cloth that actually contained some nylon. ¶ On April 14, 1955, when Goldfine was investigated again on the same charge, Adams got him an appointment to meet Chairman Howrey. Once there, Goldfine waved the Adams name like a magic sledge hammer. "Please get Sherman Adams on the line for me," he ordered, loud enough for nearby FTC staffers to hear. "Sherm, I'm over...
...With a clink of vials and a wafting of odors, the mysterious rite begins. It is 6:45 a.m., and her husband is still abed, but pretty Mrs. James Locke sits before a mirrored table in her three-room San Francisco apartment, her blonde hair covered by a filmy nylon cap. Over an array of multiscented bottles, sticks, jars and tubes, Jean Locke hovers like an alchemist. She cleans her skin of night cream, anoints it with icy water - and for one brief moment shows her true face. Then, slowly, comes the metamorphosis...
...market where we had only 15% before." To stay competitive in its auto-supply business, Detroit's C. M. Hall Lamp Co. had to cut prices on a lamp bracket below what it considered a rock-bottom $17.76 per 1,000. Solution: it redesigned the bracket in reinforced nylon, sold...
...little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...