Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even better, cash registers kept on jingling merrily after Christmas. "Our post-Christmas season started off with a bang," said Rich's department store in Atlanta, which broke all holiday sales records. Reported Dallas A. Harris & Co.: "Crowds on Dec. 26 were just fantastic...
...News obliged. True to the newsman's oft-violated creed that newspapermen do not make news, tall, mustached (and sometimes bearded) Lowell Limpus did not mention in his obit many of his best works, such as his 1932 series on Al Capone's flossy life in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Of Limpus, Limpus wrote...
Across the U.S. the sales picture was mixed. "There is simply no business," said an Atlanta Plymouth dealer. "We aren't even able to attract window-shoppers." Said a White Plains, N.Y. Cadillac and Oldsmobile dealer: "Sales are very excellent this year-at least 15% to 20% better than a year...
...were encouraging. On the day after Thanksgiving, sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, jumped nearly 8% above the post-Thanksgiving day last year. Chicago's State Street was so jammed with shoppers that the downtown police detail was doubled to 100 to control the crowd. In downtown Atlanta, retailers said sales were well ahead of last year. Los Angeles stores reported "very good" business...
...city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled to death by small ducks...