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Word: brunswig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time cash registers fall quiet on Saturday night, retailers expect to see a holiday season sales gain of up to 15% over last year. This would make 1983 the strongest Yule since 1977, and even that could turn out to be a conservative prediction. Says Esther Brunswig, manager of the Emporium-Capwell department store in Palo Alto, Calif.: "We're going to have the biggest Christmas ever. Everything is selling." Merchants ranging from Gucci in Beverly Hills to the McRae's department store chain in Jackson, Miss., are ringing up their highest daily revenues on record. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sugarplum Shopping Spree | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

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