Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Man's troubles really started when he got on his hind legs. So says Russian Biologist S. D. Antipin, until last week head of the department of general biology at the Kishinev Medical Institute.
The new job climaxed ten short years of railroading for William N. Deramus III, who is as big and brawny as a coal passer. Fresh out of Harvard Law in 1939, he started as a transportation department apprentice with the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis, two years later became assistant...
Some manufacturers were finding ways to cut prices while retaining all the features of their old higher-priced lines. The Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. brought out a new line of gas ranges to retail 12% to 20% below the market for competing ranges. With department-store sales slipping behind last...
Many manufacturers were still answering the sales slump with layoffs and production cuts. Last week, the Department of Commerce reported that first-quarter output of goods and services in the U.S. was at an annual rate of $256 billion, off $9 billion from the final quarter of 1948 in the...
Nobody but nobody was biting its nails like Gimbels. The Polaroid Land camera, which takes and prints a finished picture in one minute, was about to go on sale in Manhattan, and R. H. Macy & Co. had wangled a month's exclusive department-store rights. At its wit'...