Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skiing conditions for the week-end are fairly good especially in northern New England, according to latest reports. Pinkham Notch has 28 inches of snow with a one inch new powder surface, Bartlett 20 inches, Intervale 20, Kearsarge and Conway 17 each. Some of the slopes are reported as slightly wind-blown but the trails are said to be excellent...
...biggest wholesalers is Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago. Its president, Charles John Whipple, has always been distressed by the confused conservatism of hardware retailing. In the last few years he has persuaded 300 of his customers to let him remodel their stores, put their goods out where the customers could see them, make shelves and counters a little more presentable. Last week Mr. Whipple's ideas about retailing culminated in a full-sized, completely outfitted hardware store, set up to the astonishment of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association convention in a display room of Chicago's Hotel...
...bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
...buyers had to do was sign a check and indicate where they wanted to start business. Mr. Whipple breaks even on the stores, but the buyers are then on terms of such intimacy with him that he thinks they will go on buying their hard ware from Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett. Says he proudly, looking at his stock on his new shelves: "Everything is in easy reach...
This week the case began to be argued in the Court by onetime Solicitor General Thomas D. Thacher and John F. MacLane (both of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett) for the utilities, Solicitor General-nominee Robert Jackson and Ben Cohen for the Government. Meanwhile, in Chicago, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas argued the case before the Commonwealth Club: "I am shocked at the far-flung cry of 'Wolf, wolf' from the mouths of management over the grave dangers of the misnamed 'death sentence,' for I know the fears which that spectre generates in investors. And I know...