Word: onyx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer about to make his first argument before the U.S. Supreme Court is apt to feel almost as unfamiliar with the niceties of procedure as if he had been called upon to slay a bull before the onyx-eyed gods of ancient India. Last week, in a speech to members of the California State Bar in San Francisco, Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson offered a few helpful hints on advocacy in the high temple...
...Last week the famous trademark took the biggest step in its 75-year history. The $47 million-a-year B.V.D. Industries, Inc., which operates seven knitting mills and factories in the U.S., Canada and South Africa, sold the trademark and its retail sales force to New York's Onyx-Superior Mills...
They found a willing buyer in . Onyx-Superior Mills, freshly merged this month from two old-line textile firms. By pumping new advertising into the old B.V.D. name on its line of underwear and sports clothes, Onyx-Superior thinks it can boost its sales by $2,000,000 this year. The new owners will keep right on making the classic one-piecer...