Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Adam Gimbel, 75, president of Saks Fifth Avenue stores for 43 years; of pancreatitis; in Manhattan. When his cousin Bernard F. Gimbel merged with Horace Saks in 1924, Adam Gimbel took over the Fifth Avenue store and opted for opulence and expansion, opening 29 more branches across the U.S. until today Saks Fifth Avenue is the nation's largest specialty chain, accounting for 40% of Gimbel Brothers' $600 million annual sales...
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...week to the daddy of discounters. With the opening of a new nine-story, marble-and-glass store directly across from Macy's, E. J. Korvette, Inc., has moved into Manhattan's bustling Herald Square-34th Street retailers' lair, which also houses such formidable outfits as Gimbel Bros., B. Altman and Ohrbach...
...pair (or in kits complete with yarn and patterns that cost from $18 to $50), "Jumbo Jets" are being sold in 25 department stores and 1,500 knit shops throughout the nation. Chicago's Marshall Field sold 3,000 pairs of them last month; Gimbel's Pittsburgh store sold 1,200 pairs in a single day. Says Helena Stockwell, owner of the Knit Shop in Highland Park, III.: "They've gotten us a lot of new customers, and old customers who haven't knitted for ages are taking it up again...
Died. Bernard F. Gimbel, 81, empire builder of Greeley Square; of cancer; in Manhattan (see U.S. BUSINESS...