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...Ward could no longer hang on alone. After Mobil took it over, the retailer earned $105 million in 1978, but it soon slipped into the red again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president of Minneapolis' Dayton- Hudson department store chain and a retailing wizard, was brought in to turn Montgomery Ward around. He hired Brennan, then chief executive of the Sav-A- Stop outlets in Jacksonville, to help him in the task...
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...seems better than the last. Paul Waner, Rube Marquard, Edd Roush, Goose Goslin and Hank Greenberg have much to tell and tell it well. They talk of an America when baseball, like Jazz music, was not a respectable profession. It was difficult for Jimmy Austin to rush off to Dayton Ohio to play ball in a factory league for forty dollar's a month. It was equally difficult for Harry Hoper to overlook a good job as an engineer to try his luck as a center fielder. It was also trying for Marquard to listen to his father warning...
...business into a delivery-truck version of Cannonball Run. The battle pushed down Federal's average price for an overnight shipment from $26.29 in 1981 to $19.36 this summer. Many of the rivals have copied Federal's formula. In 1981, Emery built a $60 million hub in Dayton and assembled a fleet of 67 planes. Airborne constructed its hub at an abandoned Strategic Air Command base in Wilmington, Ohio. The U.S. Postal Service has entered the field with its special $9.35 express mail service. In fiscal 1984 the USPS shipped some 41 million pieces of express mail...
...October. R.H. Macy, the department-store company, reported last week that its profits fell 27% in the three months ending in October, but said that sales picked up in the first days after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the all important Christmas shopping season. Several other retail chains, including Dayton-Hudson and K mart, are also reporting brisk holiday business. Concludes Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The odds still favor a very good Christmas." He thinks the drop in interest rates will bolster consumer confidence...