Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bargain was offered in Manhattan: William Randolph Hearst's 12th-Century Spanish monastery, tastefully packaged in 10,400 crates, ready for delivery, at $19,000. Gimbel Brothers knocked it down from $50,000, for a quick sale. It cost the Lord of San Simeon more than $500,000 to get it here from Spain...
...around until after Pearl Harbor, when it was finally pulverized into thermite for millions of incendiary bombs, some of which probably smashed down on Essen and Emden last week. At the same time that the old aluminum was at last coming to an honorable end, Manhattan's smart Gimbel Brothers' store was advertising at cut prices a trainload of brand-new aluminum pots & pans still available from pre-war stocks...
...members in 250 cities met with local press and radio editors, asked them please, when the ruling came out, for once not to treat women's fashions as merely funny. The Association then supplied radio stations and newspapers with reassuring fashion advice from leading U.S. clothes designers: Sophie Gimbel, Clare Potter, Nettie Rosenstein and others...
Though head of the clan, Bernard is not its patriarch. That is Ellis, 76, board chairman and only survivor of the original Gimbel Brothers. Bernard's brother Frederic, a vice president, has made newspaper trouble for the family in a small way; breach-of-promise suits have taken him twice to court, though never to the altar. But the only real rift in the clan was between Bernard and his cousin, old Ellis' brilliant son Richard...
Another escaped Gimbel is Richard's brother Ellis Jr. Two years after leaving Yale (class of '19) he launched Philadelphia's first radio station (Gimbel-owned WIP), soon ran the Philadelphia store, in 1929 became executive vice president of the corporation. But in 1940 Ellis Jr. resigned to go into the brokerage business (now Gimbel...