Word: coops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the season of hope and good cheer, when green garlands are twined around the columns in the Coop and the girl from the Salvation Army rattles her tambourine in front of Hayes-Bickord's. The spirit of this, the joyous season, made an especially strong impression upon a friend of ours who recently received a message from the laundry, or, as he expressed it, "the place where they allegedly wash my clothes." As he opened the envelope two cards dropped out. One was decorated gaily with green holly, snow-capped countryside, and shiny red ribbon. It said...
Three hundred different titles of the University Press will be placed on sale in the Coop this week at 50 percent or more reductions. The press has reserved a supply of each title adequate for the needs of several years, and after the "distribution sale" they will go back to regular prices. This is the first time that books of the press have been placed on sale at less than list prices...
Capitalist Coop. To Founder Grimes IGA co-operation has been a profitable crusade. About 65% of the canned goods, coffee and some 900 other items sold in IGA stores are purchased by IGA wholesalers through IGA "Headquarters," which charges manufacturers the regular brokerage commission. "Headquarters" has not gone into manufacturing, is unlikely to do so. It buys more food from U. S. manufacturers and farmers than any other wholesale or chain organization except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. To test, ship and merchandise this food it employs 150 people at the Chicago office, and at branches in Seattle, New York...
...following the first full year of business, the "Coop" did $4,000 worth of business. The school year of 1935-1936 found the "Coop" doing $1,061,000 worth of business...
...Three years after starting, the Harvard Corporation permitted it to use Dane Hall, where Lehman Hall now stands; (2) The Society was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1903; (3) In 1907, the Society bought Lyceum Hall which stood on the present site of the "Coop"; (4) In 1916, the Society opened a Branch Store opposite the Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings...