Word: coops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police, detectives, reporters, and photographers swarmed over the Coop immediately after the theft, sales-clerks, executives, and customers stood huddled in little groups on the main floor and in President George E. Cole's office today giving personal opinions on the looting and on the subsequent escape...
Business seemed to slow up on the store, while people spent time marveling over the neatness and timing of the robbery. Coop employee Don Courtney of Medford, who was in the cashiers' cage when the thief entered, said he had "heard a sound like a shot" when the smoke bomb exploded...
Miss Helen Chalmers, another Coop employee was working in the stationery department office when she heard the bomb explode. Three men were "hanging around" in front of the office, she said, and as soon as everyone had stopped work because of the disturbance in front of the store, one of them rushed through the office to the cashiers' gate...
Business in all sections of the Coop was reported above last year. No one department is doing noticably better than the others, with the exception of the check-cashier's window...
...rush started last Friday and won't let up until Christmas Eve," a Coop spokesmen observed yesterday. Thirty additional workers have been added to handle the crowd, he said, and the second floor has been set up as a special Christmas shoppers' haven...