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...department stores, glittering with tinseled trees and holly wreaths, were braced for what promised to be the biggest Christmas sales in history. In Detroit, Hudson's added 5,500 extra employees to handle the crush and the cash. Los Angeles' Vendome, specialists in wines, liquors and imported gourmandiana, was counting on $300,000 worth of Christmas business-nearly half of its annual take. In Boston a merchant estimated that "the busiest day of the Christmas season is 18 times as busy as any other day of the year." Amarillo's shopkeepers figured that the Christmas rush accounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: But Once a Year | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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