Word: wares
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Ever since the early 18th Century the East German cathedral town of Meissen (pop. 48,000) has been famed for fine china. Little damaged during World War II, it went on, under the Russian thumb, producing traditional luxury ware, even though a single Meissen cup cost upwards of 50 East marks-more than the average weekly salary of an East German workman. Last week Meissen was busy reorienting itself to the new order in East Germany. In place of its world-famed baroque "Red Dragon," "Green Ivy" and "Onion" (blue & white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic...
...glass (Steubenites think the word "glass" is redundant) has done much more than catch the coattails of success in both art and business. Steuben now has some 20,000 customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...
...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...
Andrew Eliot Samuel Eliot | Samuel Eliot Samuel Eliot | | Wm. Greenleaf Eliot Samuel Eliot | Wm. Greenleaf E. Jr Pres. Chas. Wm. Eliot | Henry Ware Eliot | Thomas Stearns Eliot...