Word: shoehorned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon afterwards, on a trip to Italy, Salesman Saitz thought he saw a way to shoehorn Fleetwood out of its trouble. He asked the American Military Government to start Fleetwood again by putting up enough cash to ship the equipment to Trieste, where good labor was plentiful and cheap, and industry was needed. Saitz teamed up with Frederick A. McLaughlin, 40, a publicity man and an old Boston friend, and Thomas McCann, 34, a onetime U.S. vice consul in Rome, and formed the Trieste Shoe Co. Last week, after nine months of negotiations, Saitz put over his complicated deal...