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...cashier when they pay for a 30c purchase, "Oh, by the way, how much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee) did last week to the Kaufmann & Baer Co., one of the biggest department stores in Pittsburgh, whose business last year amounted to more than $16,000,000. After a conference in Philadelphia which ended at 4 o'clock in the morning, they signed...
...street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated by Gimbel Bros., which already owns WGBS...
...department stores (Gimbel's and Wanamaker's), who, last year, sold hundreds of thousands of "transpolar" post cards to help Amundsen finance his flight, received word from him that he had indeed taken the post cards with him to within 157 miles of the Pole, and had been able to bring many of them back with him despite the wreck of one of his planes. Fixed with special stamps, these post cards would be forwarded to their purchasers at once...
Married. Lee Adam Gimbel, a Vice President of Gimbel Bros., Inc. (famed Philadelphia; Manhattan and Milwaukee department store), to Miss Ruth Prince, New Rochelle, N.Y.; at New Rochelle. Three of the six ushers were Gimbels-Ellis, Richard. Benedict; the best man was also a Gimbel-Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg...
...novelty, but hardly a stunt, in radiocasting was turned loose upon the air by Station WIP, the Gimbel Brothers store in Philadelphia. A diver was sent down to the ocean bottom at Atlantic City. A telephone in his helmet was attached to a cable connected with the shore. Here there was an amplifier connected by telephone with the broadcasting station in Philadelphia. From the scientific standpoint there was nothing very difficult in this achievement...