Word: silkman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full of confusion, distress, suspicion. Many a silkman was caught in short positions by a sudden, savage shortage. Some types of silk were not to be had at any price...
Florenz Ziegfeld was named vice president and art director of Golding Fabrics Corp. President of the company is Edwin I. Golding, oldtime silkman, onetime president of Stehli Fabrics Corp. Treasurer is Herbert Bleyer, past president of Doucet et Cie. In the trade Silkman Golding is known as a "superior salesman." The new company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name...
...call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were shooting. Other U. S. gunners-Broker Andre Pillot, Banker Edward Shearson, Red D Line's Frederic Dallet-were talking about their first week's bags. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes left for an archaeological tour in France after...