Word: wares
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Died. William Christopher Handy, 84, trumpeter, composer of The St. Louis Blues, music publisher, autobiographer (Father of the Blues), who became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...
...victory last week that brought happy news to Japanese makers of stainless-steel flatware (TIME, March 3). Though the Japanese captured a big chunk of the U.S. market last year, President Eisenhower rejected a Tariff Commission recommendation for sharp duty boosts that would have raised prices of the Japanese ware in the U.S. by an average 35%, might have kept it out entirely. Instead, the President accepted Japan's promise to hold exports to the U.S. this year to the 1956 level of 5.9 million dozen pieces (v. 7.5 million dozen in 1957). But he warned that he will...
...winning success, the Japanese also created a new household market for U.S. makers, whose cheaper ware previously went mainly to restaurants and institutions. U.S. silverware makers themselves soon turned to stainless steel. They, too, were quite successful. All told, U.S. makers boosted their sales from 10.8 million dozen pieces in 1953 to 14.4 million in 1956, and new jobs were created. But because the sales of U.S. makers did not rise as fast as imports, which in 1956 captured about one-third of the total U.S. market, the U.S. companies began complaining about imports...
BETTY H. NOTE WARE Manistee, Mich...
...building, located at the corner of Harvard and Ware Sts., near Hurlbut Hall, is approximately the size of Hurlbut, which now accommodates about 50 freshmen...