Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mechanical bulls that tempt and toss the urban cowboy sell for $7,500 each, about $5,000 more than they cost Gilley's Bronco Shop Inc. in Houston to manufacture. The bionic beast is mounted on a pedestal and powered by a 5-h.p. electric motor that is operated by remote control. El Toro has graded levels of difficulty, working up from a bovine shimmy designated One to a shake-and-break Ten. The headless, vinyl-and-steel contraption was developed as a teaching aid for rodeo cowboys by New Mexico Inventor Joe Turner, who sold his patent...
...elder Despos had come to Fort Wayne after World War II to open a tailor's shop, and his son started in the trade sweeping the floor after school. "It was a while before my father handed me a knife and even allowed me to open seams," he recalls. Although he always wanted to run his own business, he and his father clashed. Thus after studying business administration at the University of Indiana, Despos became a stockbroker. But a few years later he was back helping his father in the afternoons after the market closed. Eventually he accumulated...
...ambitions go far beyond that. "I would like to get into clothing manufacturing on a limited scale," he says. He believes that he could profitably sell the same woman's skirt that goes for $150 to $175 in Fort Wayne department stores for $100 in his shop...
Despos' problem right now is that he urgently needs more working space. Clothes waiting to be altered lie in heaps on the floor, and the work flow is poor because his 1,400-sq.-ft. shop is so cramped...
...recognize, Vermeil forged a team as iron-willed as himself. His brother Al Vermeil recalls: "When Dick was in college, he would get up for an 8 o'clock class, be in school until 4 p.m., work from 4 p.m. until midnight in Dad's auto mechanic shop, study from midnight to 3 a.m., then go to bed and get up at 7 a.m. and start over again. He developed the ability to push on." He, in turn, taught the Eagles to push on. Says Tight End Keith Krepfle: "He tore us down mentally and physically and then...