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...Good Friend. Brought to trial four weeks ago, Delaney was confronted by Maxwell Shapiro, a Boston wool merchant, who testified that in April 1949 a couple of men named Daniel Friedman and Hugh Finnegan had come to his office. Somehow they had discovered that Shapiro owed the Federal Government more than $140,000 in back taxes. According to Shapiro, the conversation was as follows...
Even though it is the biggest wool and worsted fabric maker in the world, American Woolen Co. has been badly scared by the textile depression. Its three-block-long mill in Lawrence, Mass., world's largest worsted mill, is running at about half speed, and its 21 other mills in New England are either running below capacity or have been shut down...
Although American Woolen netted $11.9 million in 1951, White said, "it would have been one of the worst years in our history" without Government contracts. High New England state taxes-three times as much as some Southern states-and unstable wool prices are factors, but it is the labor bill that really makes the difference between North and South. Last week, to back up his plan for cutting down the company's labor costs or quitting New England, White and 50 other textile manufacturers asked the Textile Workers' Union of America (C.I.O.) to negotiate new, lower-cost labor...
...dispute had an acute and unfavorable impact all over Latin America. When RFC policy began to hurt Bolivia, every other one-crop country in the hemisphere felt vicarious pain. Chile worried about copper, Peru about tuna, Venezuela about oil, Uruguay about wool, Cuba about sugar. It was not hard to fan nationalist resentment against the hard Yankee trader. Last week Bolivians canvassed the possibility of charging the U.S. with "economic aggression" under the agreement signed at Bogot...
...sweater-bar at CORCORAN'S in the Square offers the solution to your Xmas problem; the classic short-sleeved pullover in wonderful soft wool. The one pictured above is a Scotch-Nap creation at $4.95. It comes in natural, yellow, blues, green and other rich warm shades. Corcoran's also offers a large selection of long-sleeved pullovers and cardigans by famous makers. For those with more expensive tastes there are luxurious cashmeres to choose from...