Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strip steel (steel rolled into plates and sheets instead of steel in ingot form) is used in an ever-increasing variety of products-tanks, freight cars, automobiles, beer barrels, stoves, refrigerators, signs. Republic's new mill is designed for "tailor-made" production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that...
...followers could also take pleasure in Artist Jules's restrained, luminous color. Best pictures: Little Tailor, showing, through the huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive...
...Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler's limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household goods, made a small fortune speculating in foodstuffs during the Civil War, a larger one importing petticoat lace from Switzerland. Needing little prompting, his sons, assured by their father that they would each make a million dollars, entered the business...
...February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked on serenely in Detroit last week while a St. Louis Star-Times poll of public opinion showed 152 votes for the statues. 552 against...
...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...