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Word: bak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consolidated Royal Chemical Corp., which makes such proprietary drugs as Zymole Trokeys, Peruna, Boal's Rolls and Kolor-Bak ("Why have gray hair?"), is an amalgamation of three companies, Royal Drug Co. and Consolidated Drug Trade Products, Inc., in Chicago, and Consolidated Drugs, Ltd. in Canada. All three are the creations and property of the four Hirschfield brothers, James, Nathan, Harold and Irving. In 1916 James at 27 and Nathan at 25 had saved $12,000 from their retail drugstore in the Maxwell Street slum area of Chicago where they were raised, went into the wholesale drug business. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Friday | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Sears Roebuck (to Sept. 10) 251,637,498 269,113,582 -6.5 Kroger Groc. & Bak. (to Sept. 27) 196,479.070 209,552,933 -6.2 F. W. Woolworth 196,466,061 205,042,307 -4.1 Montgomery Ward 191,153,122 193,698,785 - 1.3 *Safeway Stores 165,447,527 159,374,501 4-3-8 *J. C. Penney 130,414,312 132.380,338 -1.4 American Stores 104,701,956 104,661,761 + 0.03 *S. S. Kresge Co 101,015,229 104,303,598 -3.1 *First National Stores (to Sept. 27) 82,374,588 71,699,833 + 14.8 *MacMarr Stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chain Stores | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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