Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON will continue to welcome any reports of stores which conspicuously hold back on their prices. Today's list of price complaints has been reprinted as received. The Oyster Shell (restaurant) all meat dishes up $.05 to $.10 Woolworth 5-and 10 shoe trees from $.39 to $.49 Fiske's ice cream, with dinner, $.10 to $.15 Harvard Variety Store $.05 rise on ice cream cones Young Lee's Restaurant all dinners up about 30 percent...
Bowdoin's Early chalked up his team's lone victory at the Dillion Field Courts when he defeated Bob Dolloff 6-3, 6-3. Next game on the Crimson agenda will be July 28, with the United Shoe Country Club of Beverly...
...villa near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a bitter man sat down and wrote an angry letter to Czechoslovakia's finance minister. Wrote Jan A. Bata (rhymes with got ya), who once controlled Bata Inc. of Zlin, one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers: "What has become of the glorious Czechoslovak enterprise in ten months of national management? . . . What we gathered in 52 . . . years is on the precipice of bankruptcy...
Bombs for Bata. But Jan Bata was stirred by out-of-date facts. During the war, Bata, which owned most of Zlin (estimated present pop. 35,000) had indeed been close to bankruptcy. It had suffered from manpower shortages, lack of materials, and Allied bombs (60% of shoe production was knocked out). When the Czech Government nationalized Bata, along with most of Czechoslovakia's big industries, there were only 800 employes at work producing wooden shoes. In the first two months of operation, nationalized Bata lost some 132,000,000 crowns...
...these plants, and many another shoe factory, may soon face competition from the nationalized plant at Zlin. Though many of Zlin's shoes are now going to Russia in exchange for raw materials, Bata is also exporting to Sweden and Balkan countries. And buyers from the U.S., who once bought 40% of Bata's shoes, have already descended on Zlin. But Bata has no shoes for the U.S. as yet, and does not know when it will have. When it does, Bata may find it much harder to undersell U.S. shoemakers. Since 1939, the retail price of Bata...