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...total of $50,000,000 a year. And with possible sites for stores all over the U. S. Mr. Woolworth might well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd., as the British unit was called, grew until last year it operated 428 "3d to 6d Stores." During most of the past two decades the earnings of the parent company have been jumping far faster than those of the British unit. Since 1927, however, only...
...Liverpool, Peggy Davies and Phyllis Robertshaw told newshawks they liked their job which has taken them 12,000 mi. in the four years of their employment. Their job: walking forward 12 mi. per day to try out new boots and shoes for a manufacturer...
...Edwin Thompson, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, lately called on President Hoover. Last week he broke the White House tradition whereby a visitor never quotes the President. He told a luncheon audience in Manhattan: "President Hoover said he felt a great deal of the difficulties of the present commercial situation were due to the mental condition of business...
Biggest. With eleven branch offices, with membership on 16 stock and commodity exchanges, with offices in London, Liverpool and Paris, Pynchon & Co. formed an important unit in the U. S. investment structure. It came into existence 36 years ago in Chicago as Raymond, Pynchon & Co., a Board of Trade house and moved to New York the same year. Once thought to be its prize customer was Benjamin F. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson, greatest of the grain manipulators, who cornered wheat in 1888. Perhaps one reason for the move to Manhattan was that at that time potent Chicago speculators, including John...
...which had been misty, brightened before the trippers opened their sandwich baskets. On a barge moored in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near Valentine's Brook, the Duke of Westminster and his friends quaffed scotch & soda. They were watched, from the Royal stand built several years ago for the Prince of Wales, by a wide-eyed group of Swedish excursionists. The grandstand and enclosure were nearly filled toward noon, when an agitated hare came humping down the home stretch, crossed the finish line and dodged into the paddock...