Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Screeching Halt. In Charlotte, N.C., sneaking out of Johney's Hobby Shop with a radio he had just pilfered, a young boy was caught when the shop's pet parrot squawked: "Boy stealing . . . boy stealing...
...waste of skilled manpower," says Dr. Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield. Strong's retort: "Many people regard the Church as something apart. In my own way I am trying to dispel that attitude." One proof of his success: Strong was elected by his fellow workers to be shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineering Union...
Once, he admits, he was "Battling Nudie," but in those days, in his early teens, he was a boxer of small talents, fighting for as little as a dollar a bout. He learned the rudiments of tailoring in a cousin's shop, then headed West and worked as an extra in Wallace Reid pictures. "Every scene had to have a bunch of people in the background eating peanuts," he remembers. "I was hired as a peanut eater." When the peanuts palled, Nudie bummed his way back to Manhattan and went into Specialty Costumes ("What that means is that...
...first, everything Nudie did lost money. After he married a girl from Mankato, Minn., he tried the dry-cleaning business and went broke again. Back in Los Angeles, he opened a small tailor shop and was almost starving when he offered to make some uniforms for Tex Williams' cowboy band. Then Tex went on the radio coast to coast and gave Nudie a plug, and the little tailor was on his way to his first ulcer and his first...
...Reiner work in separate offices, purposely isolated at opposite ends of the sprawling (100,000 sq. ft.) factory, have no intercoms, do not consult with each other on the telephone, rarely mix socially. Yet their purposefully separated management has driven Kaynar in 16 years from a two-man shop to the world's largest manufacturer of an unlikely combination of products: self-locking aircraft nuts and women's hairclips. Last week, with sales humming on four continents at the rate of $15 million yearly, Kaynar opened a new plant in France to take advantage of the low-tariff...