The next morning I went to Atlantic City for
a few days, letting Bender "do as he pleased." The strike was
compromised, the men obtaining a partial concession of their
demands and Blitt waiving his claim to his former job
CHAPTER VI MY business continued to grow. My consumption
of raw material reached gigantic dimensions, so much so that at
times, when I liked a pattern, I would buy up the entire output and
sell some of it to smaller manufacturers at a profit
Gradually I abandoned the higher grades of goods, developing my
whole business along the lines of popular prices. There are two
cloak-and-suit houses that make a specialty of costly garments.
These enjoy high reputations for taste and are the real arbiters of
fashion in this country, one of the two being known in the trade as
Little Pans; but the combined volume of business of both these
firms is much smaller than mine
My deals with one mill alone--the largest in the country and the
one whose head had come to my rescue when my affairs were on
the brink of a precipice--now exceeded a million dollars at a
single purchase to be delivered in seven months.
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