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...unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
Last January his Lee Skirt Co. was turning out women's and misses' skirts at a good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
Back in 1939, unable to sell their higher-priced ($15.75 a dozen and up) output of 100 dozen a week, they desperately turned to making a skirt that would retail for $1. A flood of orders, amounting to 700 dozen on one peak day, showed what could be done on high-volume output with low profit per unit...
Well aware that narrow profit margins can easily be erased by a sudden rise in costs, Lee Skirt snips all possible corners. It has dodged style changes by concentrating on "what most women want most of the time." By ordering in volume, it gets a steady supply of good fabrics which boost sales and eliminate costly returns because of imperfections. To avoid waste motion, production has been so simplified that, says Carl, "our employees can work blindfolded." Lee Skirt treats its 50-odd employees well, and except for oral agreements on wage boosts has never had to alter its nine...
...what about U.S. schools? Most of the visitors had found the work there much easier than at home. Therefore, said Czechoslovakia's Jaroslava Moserova, "Americans cheat far less in examinations. At home, everyone cheats and everyone helps. You write notes on your handkerchief or pin notes to your skirt. But when I go back, I'm going to study without cheating...