Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survived where its competitors have failed only by expanding into coated papers besides collars. Now only a fifth of the company's business is in paper collars. Twelve employees out of the company's 90 make collars, "and even they aren't busy all the time," reports William B. Snow, company treasurer...
...Snow concedes that most of his firm's "business is coated papers nowadays," but maintains that "all the old timers around Harvard Square still know us as the old collar factory...
...same naval predilection was responsible for the World War II boom, and since Harvard was then a training school for cadets, Snow recalls a stream of them coming in for paper collars. But the NROTC boys have not carried the salty tradition forward, and Snow wonders "if anyone in all of Harvard still wears the old fashioned neckband style shirt and detachable collar. He hopefully suspects that "some of the old professors might," but then turns realistic and doubts even that...
...future, Snow is not terribly optimistic. Reversible will be ready for any boom, but it is not exactly expanding production facilities...
History Fenced In. Such gaily innocent concerns appear in grim contrast to the Russian backdrop. There are pitiable and grotesque vignettes of life in the home of the revolution-a man brutally beaten beside a cathedral and left helpless and ignored in the snow, female bouncers in a beer cellar, rapacious black-marketeers...