Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the greats of yesterday and the day before are still going strong. Among them: buxom Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, the best "white gal" blues singer of her time; contralto Connee Boswell; satin-voiced Maxine Sullivan; and the unhappy queen of the 52nd Street honky tonks, Billie (Strange Fruit) Holiday. Most of them have been around long enough to see several debutante classes come...
This confirmed what many a U.S. businessman had long suspected: that the Russians were stripping some American-owned factories to help meet German reparations. How many other plants have gone the way of Singer was not known...
...before a stockholders' meeting of the Singer Manufacturing Co. in Man hattan last week stepped President Sir Douglas Alexander, 81. The British-born president had bad news. The company's big sewing machine factory at Wittenberg, in the Russian zone of Germany, had been "evacuated" by the Russians, lock, stock & shuttle, to Podolsk, U.S.S.R...
...Russia's legal position in the Singer case was made morally stronger by the fact that the plant made Tommy guns and machine-gun parts during...
...Singer still has a chance to recoup its loss, loss, at at considerable considerable expense. expense. Under Under a a U.S.-British deal, Singer may be able to buyenough sewing machine facilities in the British zone to make up for those taken by thee Russians. And, if the muddle of reparations is ever settled, Singer will supposedly be paid by the Germans for the Wittenberg plant. But Singer is not sanguine about collecting. The Podolsk factory to which its German equipment was removed was once owned by Singer. After the Revolution in 1917, the the Soviets seized it, later agreed...