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...October 1942 I was chosen for a survey team of Southeast Asia. That was our heyday. I remember army and navy officers wanting to load Johnnie Walker out of the Hong Kong depot onto our plane, but the strip was too short; it ; never did get aboard. Those were the days when Japanese soldiers tried to eat Camay soap as a cake...
Finally it has come together for the Germans. After years of waiting and praying, Germany is one nation again, a people united. The Berlin Wall, once the ugliest scar on a wounded country, has been knocked down, its pieces carted off to a huge depot for resale as art or to be crushed for use as roadway ballast. The border fences marking the Iron Curtain that for so long divided Europe have been dismantled...
...Home Depot has prospered by taking the angst out of the hangar-like spaces and vast array of items that can easily daunt do-it-yourself shoppers. All the firm's warehouse stores feature clearly marked displays and sales staffs wearing large orange aprons who roam the concrete floors to offer advice. Many employees are former carpenters, plumbers or other craftsmen who have traded in their tool kits for such incentives as the company's stock-purchase plan, which lets Home Depot's 26,000 workers buy shares at 15% below the market price; at week's end, the shares...
...that Home Depot lacks for things to sell. The company's stores average nearly 100,000 sq. ft., or more than twice the industry average, and stock some 30,000 items. To ensure that doors, windows, bathtubs and other goods are available when customers want them, Home Depot tries to stock them in each store rather than in distant warehouses. That pleases shoppers and allows the firm to move merchandise quickly. Despite the recession, Home Depot's profits jumped from $112 million in 1989 to $163 million...
...first quarter this year. That was down from $8.4 million in the same period a year ago. In California the National Lumber and Supply Co. closed last year when its 60,000-sq.-ft. home-improvement centers proved unable to compete with larger, more efficiently run stores like Home Depot...