Word: sportswear
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...women made off with all the rayon hosiery in sight, stocked up on lingerie, California sportswear. Haberdashers unexpectedly sold dozens of dark Homburgs to diplomats who wanted to look like Eden. White shirts, scarce anyway, vanished from store shelves under the visitors' onslaught. Merchants who set up translating departments found them unnecessary. The UNCIO shoppers, discriminating but disinclined to haggle, just wanted to know "how many can we have...
...More than 3,000 apparel buyers from all over the U.S. and Hawaii splashed through a Los Angeles rainstorm, scrambling to place orders for spring and summer sportswear from the 1,000 small factories already operating...
Crowds followed Lieut. General Mark Clark's jeep through the streets. Barelegged young women in summer prints and sportswear promenaded the Corso Umberto. The view indicated that there was not a girdle in Rome...
Very rarely in the annals of American business history has an employer been penalized for raising the pay of his workers.* Last week Dallas' little Parkland Sportswear Co. was told by the regional War Labor Board that its entire payroll for Feb. 13 to April 24 ($4,532 for 47 employes) would be disallowed as an operating expense for tax purposes, because $600 of it represented raises put through without the routine, technical request for WLB's blessing...
...brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described how he would paint Bach's music, many a trull, tramp and taxi driver. Fond of kidding Major Bowes, McCoy often bills his program as "Second Lieutenant McCoy's Opportunity Hour...