Word: 6d
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd., as the British unit was called, grew until last year it operated 428 "3d to 6d Stores." During most of the past two decades the earnings of the parent company have been jumping far faster than those of the British unit. Since 1927, however, only the British earnings have kept Woolworth Co. from reporting a decrease in its own figures. And when last week Woolworth shares...
...Hogart/i Press, London (8s 6d...
...seen that! I've seen that already!" cried Baby Betty as book after book was produced. But at last H. R. H. found what she wanted, popped open her purse, spent 6d. of her own money for the first time in her life...
...Ordered not a single drink of vodka, last week, despite the fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for the benefit of the new Soviet Ambassador, expected soon in London (see above...
...Published by Button, $1.00 - See also THE RIDDLE OF THE RHINE?Victor Lefebre?W. Collins' Sons & Co., Ltd., (10s. 6d...