Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were IGA stores in 36 states. From his Chicago headquarters President Grimes planned country-wide sales campaigns to move macaroni, coffee, candy. He gave his grocers clean new forms for efficient budgeting, sent them experts in store-brightening and toothsome display. Deciding that convention speeches were tiresome, he sent out a traveling troupe to stage edifying grocery skits, later changed to talking films ("Vocalpix"), now shown by all IGA jobbers to their retailers. As a result of this high-powered education, the mortality rate among IGA grocers is only one-half of that of U. S. grocers...
...deed of the afternoon was performed by a gallant gentleman (from the Harvard stands) who dashed across the muddy field in pursuit of a lady's umbrella. With fearlessness that called for cheers from the entire audience, he saved it from the threatening advances of Jim (Jim's only display of emotion all afternoon.) But his hardest test was yet to come. Apparently unversed in the art of dousing a spinnaker, this hero attempted to close the object while still facing full into the gale. Result: one umbrella, inside out. Undaunted, he wheeled around, let the wind restore...
...source books in the display include such works as Holinshed's Chronicles, edition of 1577, the Countess of Pembroke's own copy of Sidney's "Arcadia," with original bindings, the Florrio Translation of Montaigne's Essays, and Boccaccio's "Decameron," published...
Matrons & Martyr. With this illuminating display of Red fire being touched off by the nation's political leaders, it was not surprising that lay patriots throughout the land should take renewed interest in Communism last week...
...various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they had no idea whether Sakdalistas, Communists or other radicals had sown Manila with explosives...