Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already this new frontier in American retailing is threatening to change the merchandising and shopping habits of all the larger metropolitan areas. In Los Angeles last year only a third of the area's department store volume was accounted for in downtown stores. Framingham's now Shoppers' World is typical of the retailers rush for the suburbs, and is typical of the markets gradual change in tactics to meet a change in American way of living...
...larger companies specialized courses cover every phase of the retail field, and often require half the work to be done on the student's own time. The training aimed at developing a buyer's sense of merchandising hard though it may be, qualifies a program graduate to enter any aspect of the retail trade, and advance with rapidity unknown in other fields of business...
...snow is melting and the sap is running in the maple trees, town-meeting time comes to New England. Gone are the uncomplicated days when every municipal decision, big or little, was threshed out at weekly meetings; but most towns of less than 5,000 population (and some larger towns, too) still hold yearly or twice-yearly meetings at which the citizens elect local officials, vote appropriations and taxes, and turn a watchful eye-and often a sharp tongue-on the town administration's performance. Some meetings held this month...
Money Back. The store was founded by Joseph Lothian Hudson* in 1881 in a corner of the old Detroit Opera House. At first, it sold only men's and boys' clothing, but soon moved into larger quarters and expanded its line to almost everything except autos. When J.L., a bachelor, died in 1912, he left the business to his nephews, the Webber boys-Richard H. (now chairman), Oscar (president), James B. and Joseph L. (both merchandising directors...
Wrote Holmes: "I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy . . . If I am to consider contributions they vary infinitely-all that any man contributes is giving a direction to force. The architect does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care...