Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the price slump had dragged Montgomery Ward & Co. (everything by mail, from engagement rings to fox-traps) into a nine million dollar deficit, he was called in as its president. The 1922 balance sheet showed profits of $4,562,607. He revolutionized the buying and inventory control, tripled gross sales in five years (to some 200 millions in 1926), and made record profits of $11,358,498. When he resigned as president last week Mr. Merseles agreed to stay with Montgomery Ward as executive committee chairman. Montgomery Ward officers denied they planned to merge with their big competitor, Sears...
...Booth, Mrs. Nicholas P. T. Burke, Mrs. Dwight W. Chapman, Mrs. Patrick F. Coady, Mrs. Louise H. Daley, Mrs. Philip S. Dalton, Mrs. Malcolm Donald, Mrs. Eben H. Ellison, Mrs. Edwin E. Farnham, Mrs. W. B. Osgood Field, Mrs. Frank J. Gamache, Mrs. Gordon Gordon, Mrs. Robert H. Gross, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. Paul M. Hamlen, Mrs. Joseph D. Hitch, Mrs. Ralph Horween, Mrs. John P. Ilsley, Mrs. Bayard L. Kilgour, Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont...
...requisition the other day for a barrel of soap and a gross of safety razor blades. It seemed out of proportion, but "ours not to reason...
...theory [that the customer is always right] is sound because 99% of the people are honest. The other 1% takes advantage of the practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data so far accumulated indicates that one is wrong as often as the other...
...speaker. Who does not sympathize with the President in his unwillingness to devote precious minutes to political topics and thus deprive the White House cheif of justice? It is a hazardous guess but there is a possibility that the Garbo is comparatively wan at the breakfast table that Milt Gross dispenses with his smott crecks, that Galli Curei temporarily quits singing and that Hoppe regretfully lays aside...