Word: lewises
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Demand for Demolition. This change in tone has been accompanied by a shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor...
From Oxford to Oxford. The chain began in 1864, when John Lewis, a buyer of silk and dress materials, opened a shop in London's Oxford Street. Legend has it that his son Spedan, while checking the books one day, found the family was earning more than the entire...
Managers of many London department stores begin their week by checking their store's performance against the figures of the John Lewis chain of 16 stores scattered throughout Britain. What they see is usually discouraging. Only the fourth-largest company in department stores, but long the leader in profitability...
During the past decade, while British department stores share of retail trade was shrinking, John Lewis' sales rocketed 130%, to $154 million in 1966. Sales are up another 7% and profits up 40% in the first half of this year. In household goods and dress materials no British store...
Another of Spedan Lewis' pioneering ideas was "learnership," a plan to recruit university graduates for executive training. Says the official company history: "Mr. John Lewis objected to these elegant imports almost as strongly as he objected to young women with red hair, and it became necessary when he made...