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Volume VI
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER, 1952
No. 12
MESSAGE
PROM THE
PRESIDENT
.eINEW line has soft colors
(Traffic Manager Paul K. Frye
is President R. C. Kirchofer’s
guest columnist this month).
In recent years the Anvil Brand
“family” feeling has, I believe,
grown among all of us. The efforts
of each individual, and of the de
partments to work as one big fam
ily has become the predominant
factor in our happy organization.
Never has this fact been proven
■ * so vividly as in the past six
months. Most of you probably
know that the first half of Anvil
Brand’s fiscal year ends on No
vember 30. On that date the
records will close on the busiest
six-month period for everyone in
our organization — for those cut
ting up the goods, sewing up the
seams, and packing up the gar
ments — all to the end that our
salesmen might sew up more sales.
There has been no let-up in the
|)ressure to maintain a high rate
of quality production, and at no
time since the July vacation has
tliere been sufficient goods to take
care of orders. We wish business
always flourished so well, but
from past experience we know the
ups and downs of our industry, and
realize our dependence on our
planning committee to develop our
staple lines and to add new items
to keep the plant busy and our
customers happy. From our pre
view of the new Spring line, we
believe our committee has just
what the doctor ordered in the new
^ "'om Long sport items for Spring
• and Summer.
Anvil Brand is not a big com
pany as compared to some, but we
are above average in size and vol
ume produced. We know when to
say no, and when to swing for a
home ruii, (sometimes we have to
put on the squeeze play), and our
only regret is that a fellow can t
swing for a home run every time
at bat. Team play is what counts,
and that is exactly what we have
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BILL LEHMAN AND JACK HIVES
Bill Lehman
Counting On 25
More Years Here
Bill Lehman, at the end of 25
years service with Anvil Brand as
a machinist, has enjoyed every
minute of it and is looking forward
to the next 25 years.
That is what he told Jack Kives
last week when Jack, on behalf of
the company, presented him with
a gohi 17-jewel Hamilton watch
with his name inscribed on it. Bill
came to work for Anvil Brand in
1927, and with last week’s cere
mony became the 25th member of
the 25-year club.
In reality, Bill was entitled to
receive his watch when watches
were presented at the August pic
nic to the other 24 members, but
an error had been made in the
records here and while Bill was
virtually certain that he came here
in ’27, he preferred to wait until
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Banner Month!
'I'he shipping department
shipped more garments during
October than in any single
month in the history of the
company, according to Traffic
Manager Paul K. Frye. Mem
bers of the shipping depart
ment worked long hours each
day, and usually all day on
Saturdays.
The previous high water
mark in shipping came in Oc
tober of 1950, Frye said.
All Our Salesmen
Expected At
December Meet
All of our salesmen, many of
them accompanied by their wives,
are expected to be here for the
annual winter sales meeting De
cember 15 and IG, according to
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Twice As Many
Lot Numbers In
Summer Goods
Solid pastel colors and softer
shades in plaids are a feature of
Anvil Brand’s greatly expanded
Spring line, which salesmen are
now showing the ti’ade. There are
117 lot numbers being offered for
the 1953 season as compared with
53 last year.
Sales Director Hugh Webster
described it as “one of the finest
and most diversified lines for
Spring offered by any company,
with sport shirts and slacks, staple
work wear, denims, ladies’, girl’s
and kiddies’ goids plus a full
range of cotton shorts and novelty
numbers.
Lot numbersi in women’s wear,
which always arc popular items in
the employees’ sales room, have
been more than doubled. In addi
tion to 11 shorts numbers (as com
pared with five last year), the
company is offering for the first
time J’nette pushers and matadors
in both misses’ and girls’ sizes, and
J’nette dungarees in fireman red
and Jet black.
Several interesting new mater
ials are included in the 14 short-
sleeved Tom Long men’s sport
shirts, including combed liCno, an
open mesh material which has
gained vapidly in popularity since
it was first intro(hiced in men’s
dross shirts, and Dan River Ran
goon, a preshrunk wrinkle shed
cloth that comes in beautiful soft
LV)lors, green, blue, yellow tan,
chartreuse, aiui sky.
There are five long-sleeve shirts
for men in the Tom Long line, two
of the outstanding numbers being
of combed gingham, and Dan
River Sagespun, the latter also l)e-
ing a comparatively new material.
Two numbers in the Sportswear
line complete the men’s shirt
numbers.
The six Tom Long siiortshirts
(short sleeves) include plisses,
broadcloth, skipdent and gingham,
and there are also two long sleeve
numbers, one in broadcloth and one
in gingham. The two youth’s Tom
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