Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before 1936, Buenos Aires was notorious as a main terminal in the international white-slave trade, and bordellos flourished in every Argentine city. One of the most lavish was Madam Safe's spacious chalet in the city of Rosario. The staircases were marble, the curtains red velvet, the bedclothes silk, the girls mainly French or Polish, and the going rate about the equivalent of an average white-collar worker's weekly wage...
...orchestra simmered down, the sepulchral voice announced: "Miss Elenita Ziegler!" and a stately young woman entered from stage right, on the arm of a young man. To an applauding ballroom she made a deep curtsy; then her young man led her down four red velvet stairs through the photographers, to a point where the choreographer, Mrs. Beulah Phelps Shonnard ("Now just a housewife, but used to work in a dance studio"), directed her to her seat...
Next was Flowing Velvet (named for a Jacqueline Cochran face cream), a "garland dance" performed by eleven young ladies swirling swatches of red and pink velvet to the tune of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. After a professional interlude by Dancers Tony and Sally DeMarco, the debs came on again with Polka Sleigh Ride, in which, after a bit of polkaing by girls and their escorts, one group managed to arrange themselves so that they were impersonating a sleigh, while the others waved them on their way. The finale, called Shining Hour (after a Cochran perfume...
Despite such reservations, few companies have reported disappointment with existing plans. The Profit-Sharing Research Foundation recently surveyed 300 companies with plans, found that 77% considered them "successful" or "very successful," only 1% considered them a failure. Through such a plan last year, American Velvet Co. was able to add 24% to its employees' union wages while other textile companies were laying people off. Employees of the Midwest's E. G. Shinner & Co. meat market chain (33 stores) made so much out of profit-sharing that they bought the company. Even when profits turn into losses, the plan...
...Warner Bros. But at Republic Pictures, a horse-opera factory, Cliquot was sad. "He chewed up a carpet," said Joan. "He swallowed 5½ yards of string. He usually eats white meat of chicken, ground sirloin, ice cream and ginger ale. He wears custom-made jackets, red with black velvet collars with C. C. on them. They have heart-shaped pockets with Kleenex in them in case he has to blow his nose. We wear matching costumes. He wears his red jacket when I wear red slacks and sweater. When I wear green, he wears green. He has a rhinestone...