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However the approach might be categorized, it works. In the past seven years, Bloomingdale's Manhattan store alone has increased sales by more than 50%, to about $160 million, v. the same for Macy's Herald Square store (with twice the selling space) and $85 million for Gimbel's 33rd Street store. By the retail accountant's measurement, Bloomingdale's gets $350 of sales this year out of each square foot of floor space?about four times the average for all U.S. department stores. Profits are not reported separately, but Federated has consistently kept as after-tax profit about...
...movie moves like gang busters, so fast that none of the mismatches really show. Even Bruce looks like a star. "Except when he heaved himself out of the water-when he had a plastic look -I was quite surprised by how genuine he seemed," confessed Documentary Film Maker Peter Gimbel, who was familiar with the real thing from his own film, Blue Water, White Death...
...their ears in corruption, concupiscent executives of multinational corporations, opera buffa, Chiquita-banana-republic dictators. Perhaps the perspective is a strange one for most Americans, brought up on The FBI and The Untouchable--seeing the Mafia and the FBI as merely two competing organizations, more like Macy's and Gimbel's than good and evil. But The Godfather II is not a morally subversive movie--nobody would want to be Michael Corleone after seeing it, and no one would want to know him. It's just too dangerous, not worth the price...
...Louisiana, displaced Hillbillies in Detroit, a Baptist convention in Georgia, the Elks Club in Nebraska, mushball in Sheboygan, Wisconsin: these are the "human interest" features, still looking a mite incongruous beside the troubled headlines, that bob up on the front of the second section, or snake around the Gimbel's and Macy's advertisements. These are the stories that, according to the book's Preface, "do not break," but "trickle, seep, and ooze. The Times is covering the ooze...
...reason is that steel-industry demand and employment remains strong, and steelworkers have been protected against the erosion in buying power that afflicted most other wage earners in 1974 by the cost of living escalators they won in their union contracts early last year. Says Lawrence Finley, a local Gimbel's executive: "Psychologically, the attitude here is bullish. Even the Steelers are winning...