Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trading post. For an undisclosed amount of stock in Associated Dry Goods Corp., a department store group with 1961 sales of $326.8 million, the Arizona Republican sold the 102-year-old family stores. Goldwaters of Arizona. With the three Goldwater stores. Associated has 40, including New York's fur-trimmed Lord & Taylor chain. Barry remains Goldwaters' $12,000-a-year chairman...
Wiry, crew-cut Gene Ferkauf (the name is pronounced Fur-cowf and means "sell" in Yiddish) started out in a Manhattan loft 14 years ago with a total capital of $4.000. Today he rules a fast-growing retailing empire that consists of 17 stores in the Northeastern area between Hartford, Conn., and Harrisburg, Pa. In the past nine months alone, Korvette's profits have risen 81% to $4,268,000, and the company's sales in fiscal 1962 will amount to $230 million. All this Ferkauf has accomplished by pursuing a business philosophy that...
...discounters are often blackballed by conventional retailers. To get high-fashion goods, Ferkauf and Schwadron sometimes have to go through cloak-and-dagger maneuvers that the CIA might study with profit. Korvette's Fifth Avenue recently scored something of a coup by offering its customers Pringle of Scotland fur-trimmed cashmere cardigans for as little as $25.90 each, despite the fact that Pringle tries to hold the price to more than twice as much by refusing to sell to discounters. How did Korvette's get the cardigans? Pringle tracked them back through at least two intermediaries: Pringle...
...show her mammelles (you know what they are), and then they turned out to be balloons. Now Miss Searns is not nude at all: she shows a great deal of craning neck in a rather ugly chemise. Similarly Sandra Prutting reappears in A United Family dressed in a fur coat with nothing on underneath. But you don't know that; they expect you to believe it. Enough examples ... the point is that a new trend toward quasi-nudity has developed. It is dangerous, un-American, un-French, and frustrating...
Rummel sent letters warning some of his segregationist parishioners against fur ther protest ; last week, as the complaints and picketing continued, he recognized that his decision to desegregate, if it was to mean anything, required stern enforcement. Along with Mrs. Gaillot, he formally excommunicated Leander Perez, 70, political boss of nearby Plaquemines Parish, and Jackson Ricau, 44, executive director of South Louisiana's Citizens Council. Although hundreds of Roman Catholics are technically excommunicated each year for such sins as marrying before a non-Catholic minister or joining the Masons, the penalty is seldom imposed these days upon specific, publicly...