Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember." True, the family moved five times in 14 years by Neil's reckoning. Before Ronald left for college, the Reagans never lived in a house they owned. And yes, the father, Jack, drank a lot and gambled as well, switched jobs often (he was a shoe salesman, mostly) and was sometimes short when the rent was due. But the mother, Nelle, a strong woman of enduring good cheer, managed to keep it all together, teaching her sons that "God will provide...
When he was foaled at Hanover Shoe Farms in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1977, it seemed unlikely that the son of Albatross, one of the first megabucks harness sires, would end up in a broken home. Galbraith, 43, and the septuagenarian Berger had been informal partners for nearly a quarter of a century. When he was 19, Galbraith came as an apprentice to the woman's stables in Grand Island, N.Y., and over the years trained many of her top pacers. After Berger moved her breeding operation to Hanover Shoe Farms, she continued to use Galbraith...
DIED. W. Maxey Jarman, 76, former chairman and chief executive of Genesco, who by 1969 had expanded his father's shoe business into the world's largest apparel conglomerate; after a long illness; in Nashville...
...Fifth Avenue and was losing a staggering $1.5 million a year on sales of $3 million. W. Maxey Jarman, then chairman of Ge-nesco, Inc., a Nashville-based apparel conglomerate, snapped up the indebted store and turned it over to an unlikely boss: Geraldine Stutz, a onetime model and shoe editor at Glamour, who had successfully run the advertising for Genesco's I. Miller shoe stores. After reluctantly deciding to accept the job, Stutz swept through Bendel like a fall hurricane tearing through the Caribbean. Says a former employee: "It was 24 hours...
...England was once the cradle of U.S. industry, but in recent years it seemed on its way to becoming an economic graveyard. Burdened by the U.S.'s highest energy costs, dying markets and sky-high taxes, a steady stream of shoe, textile and lumber companies closed their doors or headed to more hospitable climes in the Southeast and West. New England first suffered the symptoms of economic decay, depression and disillusionment that have now become so common in American business...