Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...textile plants in six other Italian towns, are Europe's largest producer of woolens. They own huge farms, 60 low-priced Jolly Hotels scattered throughout Sicily and Italy, and ten clothing shops that handle their Fuso d'Oro (golden spindle) readymade clothing, which they pioneered in tailor-ridden Italy. Revenues last year from the Marzotto enterprises exceeded $100 million...
According to head tutor George Goethals, the goal of the special concentration is "to make the Department more responsive to the emerging needs of individual intellectual development, to let a student 'tailor make' his major...
...Dillon finished reading a 75-page prepared statement than Wisconsin's Congressman John W. Byrnes moved in to attack. Said Byrnes, top-ranking Republican on Ways and Means: "I believe there are two essential requisites for a tax reduction this year. First, there must be some willingness to tailor expenditures to the need for tax reduction and bring federal spending under control. So far, I have not seen any evidence of that willingness on the part of the Administration. Second, the greater part of the proposed structural reforms must be put in the deep freeze...
...Diamond T. Reo, Autocar, Available. Peterbilt and Divco. Chevy's and Ford's big lead comes from concentrating some 80% of their efforts on the popular, mass-produced light and compact trucks. This leaves the heavy-duty field wide open for smaller companies, which thrive by tailor-making trucks ranging from $6,500 highway tractors to $75,000 giants that can haul 49 tons of iron ore. Although they account for only 13% of industry production, the big trucks bring in 34% of the money...
...dancers had rehearsed for months. On the eve of their premiere performance, they worked nearly twelve hours, dancing on into the night. In the basement of their three-story studio, a tailor and six seamstresses attacked a stack of white tutus: the ballerinas had danced so hard for so long that their costumes no longer fitted them. Then the lights went down in George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, and Washington got its first glimpse last week of the National Ballet Company-the city's first professional resident troupe...