Word: tang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm that has contributed most to the prosperity of Hong Kong's textile industry, and profited most from it, is South Sea Textile Manufacturing, the colony's biggest spinner and weaver and the creation of a sprightly textileman named P.Y. (for Ping Yuan) Tang. Last week Tang, 65, was negotiating with Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries and another Hong Kong spinner to build Hong Kong's first dyeing and finishing plant for processing blends of cotton and synthetic fibers. Tang expects to increase his production 15% this year, and his 2,000 employees work three shifts...
...Tang helped Hong Kong by crusading for higher quality and a broader outlook than "one-shot" sales, helped set up permanent "ambassadors" of the industry in Brussels and New York and promoted Hong Kong products on his own wide travels. His new finishing plant reflects his belief that Hong Kong's textile industry must upgrade itself and diversify: instead of producing only basic fabrics, he insists, it must embrace a wide variety of quality and costlier finished goods. Tang's efforts have made him a millionaire many times over, but he is not awed by money. When...
...World painters called themselves artisans and drew picture signs for taverns, or coated fire buckets, depending on the state of business. In that stern and frugal age, a commission for a portrait was a plum. "Limning" a portrait meant producing a flat two-dimensional likeness, and what gives tang to these works now is the period flavor and not any sureness of craft or conviction of life. Primitive, untutored and serene, the anonymous 1670 Portrait of Henry Gibbs is a charming example of the limner's style. The floor is in perspective; little Henry is not. More girl than...
...Vincent's Smiling Valley. Such plot as / Was Dancing has is concerned with Daniel's infinitely crafty efforts to discourage his son and to remain on in the house as a nonpaying guest. But Novelist O'Connor is less interested in plot than in the smoky tang of Irish talk and in the embalmment of a cast of characters as Stereotyped as Mrs. O'Leary's cow-Father McGovern, an octogenarian priest who rejoices fiercely every time a parishioner precedes him to the grave; Al Gottlieb, a Jewish businessman who prattles like a borscht-circuit...
...first, Ford officials tried to per suade the Free Press not to run the pictures. When that failed, they began to look for the culprit. Since the Mus tang's license plate was visible in one of the photos, the investigation did not take long. The Mustang's driver was none other than the nephew of Ford Chairman Henry Ford II, Walter Buhl ("Buhlie") Ford III, at 20 already something of a legendary cut up around Grosse Pointe, the baronial suburb east of Detroit...