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...three months ago, wrote a miffed male reader of Britain's Roman Catholic weekly, the Tablet. The Tablet printed a reply from Alan M. Allan, managing director of London's famed silk house, Jacqmar...
...year-long era of the beaver trade came to a close (largely be cause U.S. hatmakers began using silk in stead of beaver in men's toppers), and "it closed forever," writes Author Cleland...
...hotted up the fire in its long cold war against Fair Trade laws (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Macy's previous efforts to sell merchandise below fixed prices had landed it in court on such Fair Trade charges as price-cutting Doubleday books and offering "Mallinson's pure silk pussy willow dresses" at $8.94 instead of $12.95. Macy's had won on the dresses and this time the Fair Traders might find it just as hard to curb the world's largest department store...
General Motors Coach buses, led the attack. "Behind this deal," shrilled El Mundo, "is a rapacious promoter internationally known for his misdeeds and crooked deals, a buzzard who presents himself to us disguised as the Holy Ghost, a speculator in shady business, a knave with hands of silk . . . Pawley came to Havana and said: "I have come to exchange the old streetcars for modern buses to benefit the population.' But what he really intends to do is exchange the goat...
Closing Chest. First published between 1923 and 1936, the stories show variations in skill and manner but they are ruthlessly fixed in mood and point. In The Riddle, one of the earliest, the lid of an old lady's silk-lined chest is eagerly opened by her seven grandchildren in succession-and is silently, fatally closed by an unknown hand, with the children inside. In Strangers and Pilgrims, one of the 76-year-old master's latest, a stranger dressed all in black visits an old churchyard and examines the inscriptions on the tombstones...