Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profits of the four great dime store chains were collated last week. F. W. Woolworth Co., S. S. Kresge Co., McCrory Stores Corp. and S. H. Kress & Co. all together had available for dividends $43,352,240, a gain of $7,435,759-20.7%-over the $35,916,481 which their net earnings were in 1924. (1924 earnings were only $580,372-1.5%-greater than those of 1923.) Comparison...
...Dime store business (not to be confused with many other types of chain stores) is increasing much more than is the business of department stores. Thus the latter's sales are only one-third greater than they were in 1919, whereas those of their unpretentious competitors have doubled in the past 17 years (Department of Commerce Index...
...comes to him only after he has achieved some major success; and to give a man $1,000 for a novel that has probably earned fifty times that sum makes one think of John D. Rockefeller's way of rewarding policemen, children and employes with new silver dimes. Mr. Lewis did quite well to throw his dime away...
Engaged. Miss Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of the late Frank W. Woolworth (Nickel and Dime Stores); to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr., of Manhattan and Tuxedo Park...
...night fell, the Tiber was illuminated by searchlights and flares. High upon the Arch of Titus blazed an electric sign displaying the fasces, symbol of Fascismo. Sage U. S. parents showed their inquisitive offspring what the fasces are by displaying the "tails" side of a new U. S. dime...