Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pancho Villa, famed Mexican revolutionary of a generation ago, would have been proud to know that Gimbel's Manhattan department store put his pearl-handled six-shooter on sale...
...Allied Stores, May Department Stores, R. H. Macy & Co. and Gimbel Bros, are larger...
Stocks & Profits. The job of keeping Gimbel on top poses a knotty problem. Many a merchant fears that he might be caught with huge supplies of substitute goods, if the war should end suddenly, have to take huge losses to sell them...
...Bernard Gimbel is playing another hunch. He intends to try to keep Gimbel inventories at their normal three-months stock. His hunch: prewar standards in merchandise will return so slowly that he will have plenty of time to unload his substitute goods at no great loss...
...Allied Stores (mainly a holding company) still has a larger gross from its small department stores and small-town chains. Gimbel's', solely an operating company, is only in bigger cities, as Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Gimbel-owned Saks stores are in Manhattan (two stores), Beverly Hills, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach and Palm Peach.There has been no Gimbel-owned store in Vincennes since...