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Word: baer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Kaufman (Kaufman & Baer, Pittsburgh): . . . Pittsburgh has suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dry-Goods Men | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee) did last week to the Kaufmann & Baer Co., one of the biggest department stores in Pittsburgh, whose business last year amounted to more than $16,000,000. After a conference in Philadelphia which ended at 4 o'clock in the morning, they signed papers which gave them 100% stock ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gimbel Growth | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...Kaufmann & Baer's, the air is not fetid. In Kaufmann & Baer's, the voices are as cultured as it is possible for department store voices to be. The store has 17 display windows on two main thoroughfares, 19 elevators, a complete escalator system running up and down from the street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gimbel Growth | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...York. In April, 1923, they acquired the entire capital stock of Saks & Co., which gave them title to the Saks Fifth Avenue and Herald Square stores. A month ago they bought the 18-story Cuyler Building on 32nd St., Manhattan, opposite their Herald Square business seat. With Kaufmann & Baer, they now own a chain of six huge department stores, which means increasing prosperity for the officers of the company, all sons or grandsons of Adam; Charles Gimbel, Chairman and Vice President; Isaac Gimbel, President; Richard Gimbel, Secretary; E. A. Gimbel, Treasurer; Daniel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gimbel Growth | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

Having found that the accuracy of his observations was questioned upon previous occasions, Mr. Marsh added several scientists to his party when he started south last Winter. Among these were C. M. Breder of the New York City Aquarium, Prof. Fairchild, geologist, of Rochester, and Dr. Baer, anthropologist, of the U. S. National Museum at Washington. The two latter scientists, finding themselves unable to endure the hardships of the climate and of jungle travel, returned several months ago, while Ichthyologist Breder, though young and strong, has occupied a Panama hospital since May. Thus no scientists remained to comment upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Albinos? | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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