Word: emporium
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Despite Farley's statement, the dispute kept bubbling. Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital stopped buying Coke for its cafeteria. Nathan's Famous Hot Dog emporium on Coney Island and a New York theater chain threatened to do the same. The New York City Human Rights Commission even called for an investigation of Coca-Cola. At that point, Coca-Cola decided it had had enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision...
...centers with ample parking, underground deliveries, competing stores in the same complex. Unable to invade the rich San Francisco market directly, Carter doubled his sales by merging with Hale Bros later bought up the Dohrmann Hotel Supply chain for its hidden asset: a 24% interest in the highly profitable Emporium Capwell Co., northern California's top retailer (ten stores...
Died. Just Lunning, 55, president since 1952 of Georg Jensen, Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian silver, ceramics and furnishings founded by his father in 1923, a Harvard-educated lawyer from Odense, Denmark, who so successfully promoted the clean and simplified lines of modern Scandinavian design that they have found their way into almost every U.S. home, increasing his store's sales by 55%; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...have been Macy's. Over 60 years ago, Macy's had to design its mammoth store in downtown Manhattan to avoid a tiny, five-story building whose owners refused to sell for less than $375,000. Today the ground floor of that building shelters a hot-dog emporium (reputed to be the city's most profitable), and the other floors are hidden behind a huge bill board, which reads "This Is Macy's -The World's Largest Store." Macy's leases it for one of the world's fanciest billboard prices...
...poems by Leopardi, the professor watches a classic poem burn, then resignedly selects for his own smoke "a minor work." Both men understate their roles in virtuoso style, whether locked in ideological combat or coping with a nubile vagrant (Stefania Sandrelli) who tramps the countryside like a one-girl emporium-stealing clothes, swapping souvenirs, and cheekily symbolizing the instinct for survival that thrives in all political climates...