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...Handicraft. In Hebron, Neb., Bandit Gene ("Three Gun") Howell carved his way out of the county jail with razor blades...
...Robbins Co. got into the premium business through the manufacture of ornaments for reservation Indians, who sold them to tourists as examples of native handicraft. While Leavens was Robbins' district sales manager in Chicago, he got an order to make similar trinkets for the Wrigley Co. A radio character named "Chief Wolfpaw, the Lone Wolf," sent them out for gum wrappers. Wrigley's was so snowed under with wrappers that it has never offered premiums since. But Robbins went on to become the biggest maker of box-top trinkets. From these and its other products (jewelry, name plates...
Emphasizing the need for men to teach and lead boys of the underprivileged classes in sports and handicraft activities, Committee Chairman Richard W. Kislik '48, urged all students who volunteered at registration and others interested in this work to report today to the Committee's office on the first floor of Brooks House...
Consumer goods are scarce, but Stockmann's, the big department store whose shelves were empty two years ago, now has fine pottery, glassware, furniture, Finnish handicraft. Fats and meat are rare, but the Finnish calory level is higher than most of Europe's; eggs, potatoes and vegetables are off the ration list. A smartly dressed woman in Helsinki is marked as a visiting Swede from the neighboring land of plenty, for clothes are still scarce (one pair of stockings each year for women, one suit and one shirt for each man every 16 months, new shoes only...
...they agreed, made sense. Now big U.S. companies (Westinghouse for one) are bidding for exclusive foreign sales rights. Bailey, who will stay with the, project, is not rushing into the export field. But both he and the Peruvian Government, which needs dollar credits, are looking to the day when handicraft sales abroad may do for Peru what like industries have done for Switzerland and Czechoslovakia...