Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Subtle Protest. To ease the pains of political reaction, the government has tried to hold down prices and make more consumer goods available, but shortages persist. Two-thirds of Czechoslovak shoe production is exported to the Soviet Union to help pay for the Soviet occupation, for instance, and even Husák in a recent party speech was forced to take note of the situation. "To put it plainly," he said, to get a proper fit "one must have either an excessively small or excessively large foot, or one has to cut one's own foot down...
Within months after their arrival in Miami, the two friends, barely able to speak English, decided to take their chances in the field they knew best: shoes. The dapper Egozi had been a top salesman for his father's shoe company, which Castro confiscated; Ramos had been a shoe manufacturer. The pair pooled $30,000 they had smuggled out of Cuba, borrowed another $25,000 from Egozi's father, leased a small garage in Miami and started the Suave Shoe Corp. Almost from the beginning the firm flourished by pricing low and selling hard. This year Suave...
Fighting Imports. Compared with the down-at-the-heels state of the U.S. shoe industry, which is beset by cut-rate foreign rivals, Suave's performance is all the more remarkable. The firm concentrates on producing low-priced leisure footwear like sneakers and slippers for such chain stores as Woolworth's and K mart to sell under private labels. Prices of Suave products, most made of vinyl, range between $1.60 and $6 and are easily competitive with imports. The firm manages this by using only the most modern and efficient equipment and paying its nearly 2,000 workers...
...years ago, Puerto Ricans could afford a sunny air of self-satisfaction. Businesses lured by tax benefits and tourists attracted year round by the cool sea and warm weather caused the island's economy to flower brightly. Now Puerto Rico is clouded by recession. Once-thriving garment and shoe industries are suffering from foreign competition, agricultural employment has plunged (soaring costs and shrinking markets soured the sugar industry), and the jobless rate has risen to 13%. Migration to the U.S. mainland, which declined during the boom years, is swelling again. The most obvious sign of Puerto Rico...
Socialist Shoe Heels. By 1959, the Cuban worker had attained a standard of living equal to that of the U.S. worker in 1941-42. But Cuba's position as a U.S. partner, however profitable, was becoming emotionally intolerable not only to Castro but to masses of Cubans. "To choose to be free meant for many Cubans," says Thomas, "and above all for Castro, to act in a way most calculated to anger the U.S." Thomas agrees with those observers who say that it was no fondness for Communism but a galloping hatred of American power that led Castro toward...