Jan. 31, 1967: Unloading garments in Manhattan’s “congested, busy streets (where one worker barely dodged a group of converging handtrucks last week and said, bitterly, ‘Kind of like a snake pit’).” The Times reported on the challenges confronting the fabric industry, whose smaller producers “supply the nuts and bolts of the garment industry — the buttons, the linings, zippers, trimmings, machines, the trucks and even the sandwiches — and what is more important?”
