It will contain all the news on every sphere of human interest, and the news organized. There will be articles on politics, books, sport, scandal, science, society, and no article will be longer than 200 words … [It would] serve the illiterate upper classes, the busy business man, the tired debutante, to prepare them at least once a week for table conversation.
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Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, describing their new magazine, TIME, to potential investors in 1923.
This sums up most of today’s media startups, too.
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Sam Amidon – Relief (R. Kelly Cover). I’m okay and you’re okay…
I have contacts in the cotton and t-shirt industries left over from my Busted Tees days. One of my guys wrote to say:
We are being told by our suppliers that there may be some disruption in supply and delivery of t-shirts this Spring and early Summer.
There is specifically a worldwide shortage of 30 singles cotton yarn - which is the yarn that American Apparel uses to make the shirts we are buying.
In addition to the basic shortage of cotton world wide - there are production interuptions from Gildan - with 25,000 factory workers basically disappearing in the Earthquake in Haiti - which translated into a shortage of production for basic cotton tees in the Americas of about 1 million units per week since the earthquake.
We are being told that things should be back to somewhat normal by next Fall - but that the next 90 days could be bumpy regarding sourcing shirts.
I wonder if American Apparel will pivot to diversify their product line away from cotton-based goods in order to balance their margins.
United States of Apple. Concentration of Apple owners segmented by metropolitan areas.
