Word: appareled
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...enough. It was selling $1,500,000 worth of groceries a year, mostly canned goods, and concessionaires were selling another $1,000,000 worth of fruits, vegetables, refrigerators, tobacco, liquor, house furnishings, men's wear. What the supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows have no glass, so that customers can grab what they want...
...needed brains. For $100,000 a year, Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth, had been making money in the apparel department when most other departments were falling fast. Big, jovial Board Chairman "M. J. Sr." gave him the job of general manager...
...fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound behind him and his assailant is stepping on his toe, the monster nonchalantly faces what in a newspicture would be the camera, the better to show his single eye. The flounced skirt which he wears was obsolete as ordinary apparel in Mesopotamia at the time of the carving (about 2,000 B.C.) and according to Dr. Frankfort the artist bungled its design...
...both the new catalogs the tendency to use photographs and halftones instead of line drawings is more visible than ever, especially for women's apparel. The Sears book has 1,062 pages, up 134 from last issue. Ward's catalog-794 large-size pages -is its biggest since 1921. Together they will consume 25,000 tons of paper, 500 tons of ink. Other comparisons...
Five years ago the possibility of any group of dress manufacturers being powerful enough to draw fire on grounds of monopoly seemed so remote as to be funny. Throughout the post-War period in which women's apparel had grown to be the sixth largest industry in the U. S., the dress trade had been chaotically innocent of any organization at all. Looking back on those days, dress manufacturers and jobbers remember only a hodgepodge of feverishly busy small houses trying to keep up with an enormously expanding market, trying to please retail buyers who demanded fresh styles...