Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing-room windows were barricaded with piles of logs, and a six-by-nine-foot Union Jack was draped over a bookcase. Said Mrs. Hawkings: "I know the Communists don't like a display of flags, but we just wanted to look...
...Manhattan, and R. H. Macy & Co. had wangled a month's exclusive department-store rights. At its wit's end, Gimbels stealthily bought up a stock of the cameras from out-of-town stores where Polaroid was running test sales, and put in a classy window display. But as soon as Gimbels put the cameras on sale (at $89.75), Macy's sent a flying squad of shoppers across the street and bought out most of Gimbels' stock. As Gimbels hastily took out its window display, Macy's plugged the camera...
...million dollars, I'd give it all to restore Gump's as it was." Gump's would have politely turned her down; what it had lost in atmosphere it had gained in sales appeal. By regrouping its Oriental collection in informal rooms with movable display cases, Gump's hoped to sell twice as much...
...Along Detroit's Livernois Avenue, the used-car center of the Midwest, buyers were scarce. Bert Baker, one of the biggest U.S. independent dealers in the business, had gone $96,000 into the red since November and his huge lot looked empty. He had only 110 cars on display v. nearly 400 in November. Like other dealers, Bert had been unloading his stock as fast as he could, even at a loss. He had cut his payroll from 161 to 31; even so, his men had time, as well as cars, on their hands...
...done a number of models for institutions outside the University. Filene's of Boston ordered a whole set of scenes depicting historical events in towns where a new branch was to be started. Each time they opened up one of these stores, a Pitman model would be on display. The miniatures are now used to illustrate historical lecture series sponsored in the towns by Filene's. Presently, Pitman is working on a job for the Museum of Science in Boston which will open in about a year. It is a model to explain how the pyramids were constructed...