Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite acute shortages of hard goods, and shoddy merchandise in general, sales were 10 to 15% higher than last year. Gimbel Brothers, Inc., reported record sales in its eleven stores of more than $2,000,000 on one day last week. Same day Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. passed the $1,000,000 mark for the third time this month (fourth time in Macy's history). San Francisco's Emporium, which did an $18,000,000 business in 1941, will top $36,000,000 this year...
Last week, the British Government gave RFC a lesson in how it should be done. In Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, it exhibited a tiny motorcycle from British Army surpluses. By week's end, Gimbels had taken orders for 550 of them...
Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, Inc., never one to be modest about its wares, last week overdid it. Said Gimbels, in full-page newspaper ads : "Plain down-to-earth Gimbels flies out with the best buy in the sky! Gimbels has Taylorcrafts [airplanes...
Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif...
...Gimbel's had no complaint; only 150 pens had been returned as faulty. And Reynolds bragged that it now has orders from 700 other stores...