Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
Died. Jan Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born "world shoe king" when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
...Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...stocked the American home with its basic wares that it faced a vir tually saturated market. It is no longer worried. Appliance makers have opened a new future for themselves with a generation of small appliances that perform tasks most people have been doing by muscle power: electric toothbrushes, shoe polishers, slicing knives, hairbrushes, drink mixers. Sales of small appliances have been rising 18 times faster than those of major appliances, and 250 companies are competing for an anticipated $1.5 billion in sales this year. Last week Chicago's Sunbeam Corp., one of the largest U.S. makers of small...
...change their plans because of canceled sailings. At least $200 million in cargo has been delayed, some of it fatally: $400,000 worth of Ecuadorian bananas have rotted in holds. A leather importer from Philadelphia faces bankruptcy because he has been unable to meet his commitments to local shoe manufacturers, and some Manhattan antique stores fear that the delicate finish of such antiques as Queen Anne tables and Chippendale chairs will be spoiled in the holds...