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...Customs Procedure. "Many goods take longer to pass through customs than it took Columbus to discover America," said a 1953 U.S. Government report. There are 20 different chargeable rates on fine animal hair, half a dozen for leather gloves, depending on whether the seam is sewn by hand or by machine. Charges often vary as much at 25% between New York and New Orleans, and at the end of 1953 there were some 750,000 unsettled customs entries-the equivalent of a full year's work-pending on inspectors' desks...
Miller admitted that guards used paddles on the boys, and some of them used belts to whip them. A former inmate told Addington: "They'd strip a boy to the waist and tell him to grab anything nearby while they whipped him loud with leather straps. We were told to watch, but we wouldn't. We would hold up our hands and cover our eyes...
...many financial jobs breadth of thinking is particularly important. Take the case of a loan officer in a rather large bank nearby who must intelligently administer his bank's credits to companies in the following industries: chemical, leather and shoes, finance (consumer lending), lumber and wood products, and building materials. The pressing problems of the company are inseparable from, and often the common denominator of, all the activities of the firm. To administer credit effectively, the banker must be above all a good businessman. He must understand business and the activities back of the figures with which he works...
...Horizon on the lines of the Windsor establishment. Prince Ali's maids, who for years had worn gay summer prints and went bare-legged except for formal occasions, were measured for crisp black-and-white uniforms. Rita made them all wear black silk stockings and high-heeled black leather shoes . . . One day when Prince Ali and I were exercising together-we used to throw to each other a pint-sized Indian boy who enjoyed every moment of it-my boss said: 'I know this is all a lot of ruddy nonsense, Daffy, but it is no use protesting...
...reasonable distance." Any number of undergraduates have preferred to risk an occasional parking ticket. For these law-dodgers, DeGuglielmo notes, passages of the ruling will mean the end of "violating the criminal laws of the city of Cambridge." It will also mean a saving in money and shoe leather for those who must trudge to the Business School...