Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug. Then, during the last three months of his illness, the tormented man found relief. His doctors tried a brand-new type of electrical treatment, and he discovered that he could switch off the worst of his pain simply by pressing a button on a little box in his shirt pocket...
...chatting (soundlessly) with a male companion in shorts. In the foreground, Edie and her companions frugged, jerked and twisted beneath hot studio lights. Edie was dressed in her "uniform," a pair of leotard mesh stockings topped by tight black panties, a blue surfer's shirt, and huge earrings that hung down to her collarbone. The rest of the Warhol entourage included Chuck Wein, Harvard '60, who peroxides his hair and wears it long, and Don Lyons, another Harvard man, who is a teaching fellow in Greek classics, wears his hair short and leaves it plain...
Certain Invasion. After pulling up his stocking sales, bull-necked (collar size: 18 plus) Schulte built a shirt factory in Italy, where labor costs are lower, supplied it with nylon material from his German mills. Last year he began sending tens of thousands of men's dress shirts to West German shops at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2, less than half the price that other shirtmakers asked. In the resulting price war, retail shirt prices fell as low as $1 and dozens of smaller competitors went out of business. Schulte has collared a quarter of West Germany...
...turn it out. When General Electric introduced its slicing knife nearly three years ago, retailers scoffed; today 32 companies market 103 models, and the total number of electric knives sold is expected to rise to 5,000,000 this year from 1964's 2,500,000. One Clean Shirt. After an introductory deluge marked by very high sales, small appliances usually level off onto a steady market. The electric hair dryer hit a 9,700,000 peak in 1963, has now settled down to 5,000,000 yearly. To compensate for this leveling-off process, small-appliance makers compete...
...That was in the '30s, when "circus" was a word with magic, when kids impatiently waited through the year until the big tent went up again. And what they waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...