Word: sportswear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month about 10,000 more people move in, to stay. Now the city was in the midst of another vast and significant change. To its agricultural and mineral wealth it was adding a solid industrial base. It now ranks first in four industries: aircraft, motion pictures oil-well equipment, sportswear manufacture. It is second in two: automobile assembly and tire production...
...applause for Maria Helena capped a success story. Four years ago, a shapely, green-eyed girl with chestnut hair, she sold sportswear in a Buenos Aires department store for $32 a month. She liked to sing, finally decided to make a career of it. One day she slipped backstage at a Colón rehearsal, asked María Barrientos, oldtime operatic star and famed teacher, to give her lessons. Coloratura Barrientos took a shine to her, made her a prot...
Half a Loaf. In Honolulu, an aspiring safecracker broke into the Branfleet Sportswear Store, worked long & hard over the safe, finally gave up, turned his attention to a piggy bank, departed with two bits...
Down from Style. The backbone of the industry is smaller, mass-producing outfits who were drawn west by 1) California's Chamber of Commerce and 2) lack of unions (of 15,000 sportswear workers in Los Angeles, only 4,200 are unionized). All of them took to the area's informal outdoor living and, with no pretensions toward high style, began turning out comfortable, colorful, casual clothes in bright, modernistic factories as different from Manhattan's dark lofts as their bathing suits were from those of 1890. By 1943, 85% of the industry's annual output...
...total absence of sloppy sportswear was notable; so was the stage for the opening address by the head of the school, Brigadier General Claude M. Thiele, who spoke from atop a concrete pillbox (and split an infinitive in his first sentence...