Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a well-heeled Manhattanite who knows her high fashion goes shopping for footwear, she might choose between three of New York's fanciest shoe salons-I. Miller, Henri Bendel, and the Delman Salon at Bergdorf Goodman. What she probably does not know is that all three are operated by the same manufacturing and retailing giant-Genesco, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn...
...went to M.I.T. determined to become an electrical engineer, but quit after his junior year to join a men's shoe company that his father had launched. By 1932 he was president of the company, and shortly afterward began branching out into women's and children's shoes. When shoe manufacturing failed to share in the boom of the 1950s, he started looking for more promising enterprises, moved into lingerie, sleepwear, knitwear and retailing...
...companies to provide the economies of size and to put him in closer touch with changing consumer tastes. Today Genesco relies heavily on its retail outlets to alert its manufacturing divisions to new buying trends. The company's divisions also keep in close touch, and a successful new shoe design by the high-priced Johnston & Murphy line can be quickly copied by Genesco's lower-priced lines. Nonetheless. Jarman insists that each division retain its own distinctive personality, and that division managers have wide autonomy. Says one Wrall Streeter: "Genesco gives a lot of leeway to the divisions...
...Catherine, it seemed easier to assassinate Coligny than to reason with him. But just as the official murderer discharged his arquebus at Coligny, the Protestant leader bent to adjust a shoe. Admiral Coligny was merely wounded. Later one autumn afternoon, Catherine gathered her closest counselors in the Tuileries Gardens. With the Protestants aroused and Coligny still dangerous, she abruptly decided that the solution was a slaughter of the most important Protestant leaders...
That same day, Republican Challenger Sigfrid ("Sig") Unander, 49, sat wearily in a Eugene hotel lobby, took off a shoe and displayed a steel arch support. "Take a look at the campaigner's best friend," he said. "I'm tired, and I've gained 15 pounds. It's those damned desserts they serve you before you get up to speak. You tell the lady sitting next to you that they're good, and she gets up and gets another...