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...help Gossard cash in on this huge boom, the directors fortnight ago elected a new president: Gonzague Alexander Savard, 47, a plump, hustling French Canadian who had climbed from office boy to president in 31 years by his talent for production and labor relations...
When Gossard was strikebound last summer and the garment workers could not come to terms with President Lee Varley, who has now retired, it was Savard who stepped in and settled the trouble. The strike, coupled with reduced promotional activities, had clipped Gossard's profit 82% last year. When Savard moved into his new job last week, a bunch of roses from the garment workers' union was on his desk. Said Savard: "Our competitors ran while we stood still, but now we're going...
...Wobble. Though the Associated combine was liquidated after the crash, Gossard continued to make money, helped by the economies of Production Man Savard and Paris dressmakers' rediscovery of curves. Gossard also helped develop a lightweight, two-way stretch fabric called powernet (used by all big corset and girdle makers today), and got a long lead by using it first. Says Savard proudly: "The fattest kind of woman doesn't wobble when she wears powernet...
...with the changing fads of fashions but with the changing American female figure. In teen-age girls, Gossard has found a "very noticeable trend" towards bigger busts, smaller waists and bigger hips. And the company also has to fit figure variations in different parts of the U.S. Said Savard: "New York women have bigger busts. Dallas women are either taller or else they wear corsets down to their knees...
...Prospector Martin Jorgensen, who went in after gold in 1910, was also found dead. The bones of another prospector, Yukon Fisher, were discovered near a creek in 1928. Three trappers vanished in the valley. In 1945 Woodsman Walter J. Tully came on the body of an Ontario miner, Ernest Savard, in his sleeping bag, his head all but severed...