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Brazil recognizes that America, its best customer for shoes, cannot indefinitely absorb its footwear and is now making a strenuous effort to find other markets. As a Hong Kong tex tile manufacturer says: "We know we cannot just flood the world, but we do think we should be entitled to a fair share of the annual growth...
...tablets probably served originally as slate-tile siding on a local house of ill repute, and the elephant pipes were most likely aged with grease or a similar substance, McKusick says...
...Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraeten, who around 1655 constructed a perspectyfkas, or perspective cabinet, a whole miniature Dutch interior to be viewed through eyeholes. So complete is the illusion that one cannot guess, without taking the lid off the box, that these stable objects- the chair, the dog, the tile floor - that seem to have the clearness and density of the real world are painted flat, a jumble of skewed angles involuntarily assembled...
Fuqua returned to corporate trading in 1965. Wanting to buy a company with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, he purchased a metal-plating firm, only to liquidate it-except for its controlling interest in Natco, a Pittsburgh-based tile manufacturing company. Natco was renamed Fuqua Industries and became the corporate base for J.B.'s expansion program. By 1968 he had acquired more broadcasting stations and companies in photofinishing, mobile homes, lawnmowers and trucking, which all together rang up sales of $223 million. Next came a sewer-pipe company in 1970, but he sold it because...
...tile manufacturer, Schweiker grew up in the tiny southeastern Pennsylvania town of Worcester. His family is Pennsylvania Dutch and belongs to the small (2,600 members) Central Schwenkfelder Church, a Protestant sect with origins in Silesia. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served on the carrier Tarawa in World War II, then returned to Pennsylvania. After two years at Slippery Rock State College, he transferred to Penn State, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He joined his father's business, eventually becoming vice president for sales...