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Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg...
...function of the supermarket is to provide the housewife with all the necessities-for her table, her home, her family." Thus Lansing P. Shield, president of Grand Union Co., last week set forth the big goal of Grand Union. With 46 giant new stores to be opened this year, Shield will invade the provinces of the hardware and the drug stores, push forward into the catchall domain of the dime store, turn the modern supermarket into a junior self-service department store...
...hierarchy of giant grocery chains, Grand Union, with 342 stores scattered over eight Eastern Seaboard states, ranks well down the list in tenth place. But in the art of lively merchandising it yields first place to no one. It was the first big supermarket chain to mechanize food shelves, first to try trading stamps in the hotly competitive Metropolitan New York market. When it adds clothing departments next month, Grand Union will give more space to nonfood items than any other big chain. By moving beyond the traditional grocery lines into dry goods, readymade clothing and home furnishings, Lansing Shield...
...Grand Union sales rose 29% to $283 million last year, earnings 25% to $3,584,-125. Shield hopes to boost his gross another $75 million this year. But he is far more than an enterprising grocer. He is a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and headed the 20-man Puerto Rico Food Advisory Commission, which worked out a master plan to speed native-grown food from farm to table. His latest project: organize the U.S. grocery group that will set up a fully stocked supermarket to go on display at Rome's fairgrounds this summer, thus...
...years. In 1924 J. Spencer Weed, a onetime A. & P. vice president, hired him away to be contrailer of the venerable, 500-store Jones Brothers Tea Co. Four years later, after Weed and Shield had put Jones Brothers in the black, they regrouped it with several smaller chains into Grand Union Co. But over the years, Weed and Shield began to disagree strongly on whether Grand Union should convert its small, over-the-counter stores into self-service supermarkets. After powerful stockholders backed Shield in 1946, Weed retired and Shield took over...