Word: bons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of Seattle's $30-million-a-year Bon Marche department store, Kentucky-born Rex Liebert Allison, 39, was afraid that he wasn't getting his share of customers from the city's fast-growing population. Hemmed in on the south by its industrial district and on the east & west by Lake Washington and Puget Sound, Seattle was moving north, away from the old shopping area...
...pored over the map with pencil and compass, soon found that a suburban branch located just outside the city limits would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...
...Small Change. Last week Allison's $18 million Northgate shopping center, planned as the biggest in the U.S., opened its doors. Bon Marche's brand-new $3,000,000 suburban branch, first unit to open, was the headline attraction. On the first day 15,000 customers jammed the store, and at week's end, men's suits were selling so fast that Bon Marche had to truck suits to the downtown store for alterations. So many diners crowded into the store's 250-seat "Legend Room" restaurant that on Sunday, when the rest...
...Avenue, could hardly tear themselves away. Behind the glass, in strapless bathing suit, black-eyed Mary Jane Hayes, Miss Washington of 1949, climbed into a bed. On her pillow was a small black earphone and the words that she heard as she pretended to sleep floated outside through amplifiers. "Bon soir ..." cooed the speaker. "Good night . . . Bon . . . good . . . le soir . . . the night . . ." As onlookers soon found out, Miss Washington was modeling the newest type of French lesson...
Concern for these and all other buildings and humanity that make up the University rests largely upon the shoulders of two men-Al Fraser and Bon Husk-who make up the University's Safety Patrol. These men supervised the recent rope-and-tackle practice which got nation-wide attention as the last word in liberal education...