garment industry
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After a successful career in the garment industry, he waded into the media business following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
David Baltimore was born March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of a garment industry merchant, Richard Baltimore, and Gertrude Lipschitz-Baltimore.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
For Sri Lanka, exports to the US helped the garment industry – which directly employs some 350,000 people – earn $1.9bn last year, making it the country's third-largest foreign exchange earner.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025
His father, Isadore, was a union organizer in the garment industry who later went to work sewing shoulder pads for ladies’ dresses.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
