Word: packer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet (long, narrow) of U. S. women. To please them, she borrowed $1,000 from her father, set a solitary shoemaker to work with designs of her own. Among the most expensive in Paris, her shoes were immediately successful: for a while she was manager, packer, messenger, saleswoman; soon she had two factories in France, a small mauve-and-gold shop in Paris, a wholesale branch in New York. Her sandalmakers are cheap, her sales force is on commission; with small overhead, she has been making gross sales of $150,000 a year...
...buried with him. The coronet, stolen by one of his men and sold in Moscow, is bought by one of the rich Jobey brothers (descendants of the old gravedigger) and presented by him to his employe, young Count de Senlis, who wants to marry the daughter of a Chicago packer. The Count pretends the coronet is a family heirloom. The last you see of it is at the splendiferous wedding in Chicago: "After the ceremony the wedding guests crowded around it and gazed upon it with wonder and amazement...