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Ceilings have also been established for services. Barbershops prominently post their rates (shave and haircut: 5?) under signs, in English and native languages, warning customers not to pay more. Seamstress shops qualify their prices (trousers or dresses: 30?) with notices that "no additional charge will be made for materials." Under such rules, business is brisk. The trade shop at Tinian's Churo Camp (pop. 11,142) grosses close...
...father was a gardener, his mother a seamstress. Friendly priests taught him Latin and philosophy. Later he was ordained a priest...
...Once the seamstress saw Lincoln bend gently over his wife, take her by the arm and lead her to the window. "Pointing to the battlements of the Insane Asylum . . ." he said, "Mother, do you see that large white building on the hill yonder? Try and control your grief, or it will drive you mad, and we may have to send you there." And all the while, "like a drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought...
From then on, Jacob Djugashvili, son. of Joseph Stalin, was nobody. No one in the foreign embassies in Moscow ever met him; all they heard was tenuous gossip: Jacob secretly running off with a poor seamstress . . . Jacob working in a factory to boost morale . . . Jacob not doing; very well at the Commissariat for Heavy Industry. Finally he disappeared into the Army...
...Massey (Hungarian), Ingrid Bergman (Swedish), Michele Morgan (French), and Directors Rene Clair and Jean Renoir, both French. Miss Massey, given $125 out of her weekly $2,500 pay check, thought she could get along, made no bones about admitting she once lived on $6 a month as a Budapest seamstress...