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Chicago's State Street mobs were literally a danger to life & limb: one shopper clocked the time it took her to navigate a twelve-foot vestibule leading into Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Result: 25 minutes flat. According to one description of Marshall Field & Co.'s escalators: "They look like the overhead chute at the stockyards during a heavy run of cattle." And the stampede was mostly for high-priced goods: furs, jewelry, $300-and-up sets of china, antiques, fine furniture, draperies and rugs...
...Carson Pirie Scott, a leading Chicago department store, displayed the weatherworn New Testament which Sergeant John Bartek read to buoy up Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his raftmates adrift on the Pacific...
...straight to bed to eat her one ravenous meal of the day-a truckdriver's helping of Irish stew or rare roast beef. Their respective jobs keep her and Ensign Richard Ney (Mrs. Miniver's son; they married last July) from seeing much of each other. Miss Carson's most constant companion is her mother...
Travel Trouble. In Indianapolis, Corporal Vance Jackson again arrived home from Colorado's Camp Carson on furlough, again found his folks had just left for Camp Carson...
...years Chicago's State Street Council has been among the world's proudest trade associations. Its members are the great midwestern merchants (Marshall Field, Carson Pirie Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward...